Joe Biden announced Miguel Cardona as his nominee for Education Secretary.
Cardona began his career as an elementary school teacher. In August 2019, he was appointed Connecticut’s education commissioner by Governor Ned Lamont. In 2020, Cardona oversaw the governor’s state mandate that high schools should offer a course in African American, black, Latino, and Puerto Rican studies. It’s “learning objectives” are to “analyze how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.”
According to the Free Beacon, an expert review panel had input on the curriculum. One panel member “founded an organization that teaches students that individualism, competition, politeness, the scientific method, planning for the future, and the nuclear family are ‘aspects and assumptions of white culture.'”
President Trump has spoken out against critical race theory, saying that it is “divisive anti-American propaganda.” He signed an executive order establishing patriotic education for children. Some say a Biden administration and Biden’s new pick could undo Trump’s push for patriotic education.
