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Dr. Miguel A. Cardona

Dr. Miguel A. Cardona

U.S. Secretary of Education

Dr. Miguel A. Cardona was sworn in as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Education on March 2, 2021.

Prior to serving in President Biden's cabinet, Cardona was the Connecticut commissioner of education from August 2019 through February 2021.

After earning a degree in bilingual bicultural education from Central Connecticut State University, he began his education career in 1998, working as a 4th-grade teacher at Israel Putnam Elementary School in Meriden.

In 2003, Cardona took the helm of Hanover Elementary School, becoming Connecticut’s youngest principal at age 28. Less than ten years later, in 2012, he was awarded the National Distinguished Principal Award for Connecticut. That same year he earned his doctorate from the University of Connecticut. He became a district administrator in 2013, working as the Meriden district’s performance and evaluation specialist. In 2019, Cardona became Connecticut’s state superintendent. In that role, he pushed for reopening schools during the pandemic.

Over the last two years, Secretary Cardona led the United States’ efforts to safely and successfully reopen schools for in-person learning, going from only 46 percent of school buildings open when President Biden took office to nearly 100 percent open just nine months later, while distributing historic federal education funding for P-12 schools and colleges; working to increase higher education access, affordability, and student success; and leading unprecedented federal efforts to transform the country's student loan system.

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