Education Secretary’s First Task: Curb Standardized Tests
Miguel Cardona will need to address public school inequities by making better use of federal aid.
Miguel Cardona’s main priority is the inequality gap in education.
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President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, will face a host of pandemic-related challenges that have disproportionately affected the nation’s neediest students. In addition to learning setbacks, the prolonged isolation has caused social and emotional trauma.
The challenges will continue to mount once the Covid-19 crisis is over. Government resources will be strained at all levels, and continued Republican control of the Senate would likely limit extra funding available for K-12 education.