President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Miguel Cardona, the head of Connecticut’s public schools, to be his secretary of education, a source familiar with the decision told NPR’s Juana Summers. The source was not authorized to speak publicly because the decision has not been announced.
Cardona became the top education official in Connecticut in 2019 after being an assistant superintendent in the school district in Meriden, Conn., which serves nearly 9,000 students. It’s the district Cardona grew up and went to school in, and also where he started his career in education as an elementary school teacher. He was a principal there for 10 years and was named the state’s principal of the year in 2012.
Cardona makes true on an early Biden promise to pick an education secretary who was a teacher: “A teacher. Promise,” Biden told the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, back in July 2019.
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