President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Connecticut education commission Miguel Cardona to be the next Secretary of Education, the first Latino to be appointed to that position, CNN reports.
A former fourth grade teacher, Cardona became the youngest principal in Connecticut in 2003, at the age of 28. He became the state’s top education official in August 2019. Born while is family lived in a housing project on Puerto Rico, his parents moved his family to Connecticut when he was a child.
Cardona will oversee Biden’s education policy, which includes recovering from the coronavirus pandemic to safely reopen schools around the country, as well as providing two years of community college or technical school education at no cost to students.