{"id":45710,"date":"2020-12-23T17:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45710"},"modified":"2020-12-23T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:24:35","slug":"an-ed-secretary-with-knowledge-of-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45710","title":{"rendered":"An ed secretary with knowledge of public schools!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23EducationDepartment%20%23DeVos%20%23publiceducation%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cardona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45711\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cardona-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cardona-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cardona.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Imagine that, if you dare.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Joe Biden has presented to the nation a nominee for education secretary with actual <em>knowledge, experience<\/em> and <em>appreciation<\/em> for public education. Let this soak in for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona is Biden&#8217;s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education. Cardona would replace Betsy DeVos, who &#8212; to be charitable &#8212; knows nothing about the public school system she was nominated to lead in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19634&amp;\">Betsy DeVos for ed secretary? No way! | High Plains Blogger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DeVos was a do-nothing education secretary who was educated herself in private schools, who sent her own children to private schools and who has been a champion of the movement to take public money out of our public school system and directing it to private schools.<\/p>\n<p>Cardona at the very least has hands-on experience as a public school student, as a public school educator and as head of a statewide public education system.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome this nomination.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23EducationDepartment%20%23DeVos%20%23publiceducation%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Imagine that, if you dare. President-elect Joe Biden has presented to the nation a nominee for education secretary with actual knowledge, experience and appreciation for public education. Let this soak in for a moment. Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona is Biden&#8217;s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education. 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