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For Cardona, ‘It’s just a natural progression,” says former Meriden superintendent For Cardona, ‘It’s just a natural progression,” says former Meriden superintendent Miguel Cardona, then a first-time teacher, is seen in his classroom at Israel Putnam in 1998. File photo, Record-Journal March 02, 2021 08:29PM By Michael Gagne, Record-Journal staff MERIDEN — It was nearly 17 years ago when Miguel Cardona, then an assistant principal at Hanover School, assumed the role of principal at the school.  That was in the fall of 2003. Cardona had been...

Published March 3, 2021 • Updated on March 3, 2021 at 4:11 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden had a special visit Wednesday from First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and the new Education Secretary, Meriden-native Miguel Cardona. This visit is a return to Cardona's roots -- both to his hometown and to where his education career started -- in a classroom in Meriden. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Dr. Miguel Cardona, the nation's new education secretary, was in Meriden Wednesday an...

The first lady made a historic visit to Connecticut on Wednesday.

On Cardona's first day on job, a visit to a Meriden school with Jill Biden FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 US First Lady Jill Biden speaks before a panel discussion on cancer research and care at the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia on February 24, 2021. (Photo by Ryan M. Kelly / AFP) (Photo by RYAN M. KELLY/AFP via Getty Images)RYAN M. KELLY / AFP via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of9 Miguel Cardona is ceremonially sworn in as Education Secretary by Vice President Kamala Harris in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in...

Known as a unifier who earned his chops in a rapid rise through the education ranks – from fourth-grade teacher, to principal, assistant superintendent, and Connecticut education commissioner – Miguel Cardona was expected to be confirmed March 1 as the U.S. Secretary of Education. The Biden administration choice of Dr. Cardona as a conciliatory tone-setter was a smart move, says Jonathan Zimmerman, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. A teachers union leader or someone aligned with the pro-charter Democrats for Education Reform, he says, “would hav...