Biden’s Education secretary is done sitting ‘idly’ amid schools fight
Posted on AllSides March 27th, 2023
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Miguel Cardona is sick of the political strife that’s consuming classrooms, and he’s ready to say so out loud.
President Joe Biden’s education secretary — a former elementary school principal from Connecticut — has sought to avoid conflict since arriving in Washington. But Cardona has been shaken by the country’s fractured education politics over curriculum, parents’ rights, LGBTQ students and race.