Miguel Cardona

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona offers remarks at the first-ever Back-to-School Night at the White House on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Biden’s education chief says he avoided ‘culture wars’ despite goading from GOP governors

While Republican states were working to limit school history lessons and ban transgender athletes, President Joe Biden’s education chief said he was focused on what matters — putting more social workers in schools, expanding summer school and building a pipeline of new teachers.
January 15
FILE - Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather to protest University of Michigan President Santa Ono's "Statement regarding Mideast violence" outside the University of Michigan President's House, Oct. 13, 2023, in Ann Arbor, Mich. The University of Michigan failed to assess whether protests and other incidents on campus in response to the Israel-Hamas war created a hostile environment for students, staff and faculty. That's according to the results of an U.S. Education Department investigation announced Monday. (Jacob Hamilton/Ann Arbor News via AP, File)

Michigan, CUNY didn’t suitably assess if Israel-Hamas war protests made environment hostile, US says

June 17, 2024
College graduate Angelina Chavez poses in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Riverside was surreal for Chavez, the culmination of overcoming her imposter syndrome and embracing the efforts of her mothers, who walked the stage with her during the Latinx ceremony. (AP Photo/Nick Coury)

Degree attainment rates are increasing for US Latinos but pay disparities remain

May 31, 2024
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks with students during a visit to Towson University, Nov. 2, 2023, in Towson, Md. Cardona plans to meet Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, with students at Dartmouth College to discuss antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses amid the the Israel-Hamas war.(AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Cardona praises Dartmouth culture in allowing freedom of expression, keeping students safe

January 10, 2024
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks with students during a visit to Towson University, Nov. 2, 2023, in Towson, Md. The Biden administration is docking more than $2 million in payments to student loan servicers that failed to send billing statements on time after the end of a coronavirus pandemic payment freeze. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

The Biden administration cuts $2 million for student loan servicers after a bungled return to repayment

January 5, 2024

Secretary Miguel Cardona focused on making education accessible

In an interview with The Associated Press, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said he’s open to using “whatever levers” are available to discourage colleges from the practice of giving preference to the children of alumni and donors. (Sept. 22)
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FILE - Samuel Winkler wears a Hillel kippah during a visit by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to Towson University to discuss antisemitism on college campuses, Nov. 2, 2023, in Towson, Md. The Biden administration is warning U.S. schools and colleges that they must take immediate action to stop antisemitism and Islamophobia on their campuses, citing an “alarming rise” in threats and harassment. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

The Biden administration says colleges must fight ‘alarming rise’ in antisemitism and Islamophobia

November 7, 2023
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Department of Education, Sept. 20, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is asking America's colleges to renew their efforts to make campuses more racially diverse, urging schools to boost scholarships and minority recruiting and to give “meaningful consideration” to the adversity students face because of their race or finances. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Colleges should step up diversity efforts after affirmative action ruling, the government says

September 28, 2023
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Department of Education, Sept. 20, 2023 in Washington. A new federal rule threatens to cut federal money to college programs that consistently leave graduates with low pay or unaffordable debt. The gainful employment rule finalized by the Biden administrations on Wednesday applies mostly to for-profit colleges, along with certificate programs at traditional universities. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

New rule will cut federal money to college programs that leave grads with high debt, low pay

September 27, 2023
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Department of Education, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US education chief considers new ways to discourage college admissions preference for kids of alumni

September 22, 2023

16 states underfunded historically Black land-grant universities, Biden administration says

September 19, 2023
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, left, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, right, visit Fairview Elementary School in Springfield, Ill., on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, interacting with students in the district's after-school program. Cardona is on a five-state Midwestern bus tour to tout the Biden administration's "Raise the Bar: Lead the World" education agenda. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)

Education secretary praises Springfield after-school program during visit

September 6, 2023
A person inspects a down tree at Shady Grove Mobile Home Park in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Thousands of U.S. flights have been canceled or delayed as forecasts warn of destructively strong storms, including tornadoes, hail and lightning. (Sean Mcinnis/The Charlotte Observer via AP)

Powerful storm kills 2 people and leaves 1.1 million without power in eastern US

August 8, 2023

US education secretary praises college’s disavowal of legacy admissions

July 28, 2023
FILE - Congressional Black Caucus chair Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., center, talks with reporters following a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Horsford is joined by, from left, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo. The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing the White House, Justice Department and the Department of Education to adopt an “aggressive legal strategy” to scrutinize recent changes to Florida's Black history curriculum. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Black lawmakers press Justice and Education Departments to investigate Florida’s race curriculum

July 27, 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at right. The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans under far more generous terms. Education Department officials on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, called the new plan a “student loan safety net" that will prevent borrowers from getting overloaded with debt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Feds propose ‘student loan safety net’ alongside forgiveness

January 10, 2023
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona answers questions with President Joe Biden as they leave an event about the student debt relief in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Oct. 17, 2022. Cardona has tested positive for COVID-19 the Education Department says on Nov. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Education secretary tests positive for COVID-19

November 1, 2022
Kix Brooks, of the country music duo Brooks & Dunn, autographs posters before a dinner and program hosted by the Country Music Association Foundation Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. The CMA Foundation honored educators from across the country who were selected as music teachers of excellence. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Education chief says music can rebuild connections to school

October 20, 2022

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

August 20, 2022
FILE - ITT Technical Institute campus seen closed after ITT Educational Services announced that the school had ceased operating, Sept. 6, 2016, in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Students who used federal loans to attend ITT Technical Institute as far back as 2005 will automatically get that debt canceled. This comes after authorities found “widespread and pervasive misrepresentations” at the defunct for-profit college chain. The Biden administration says the action will cancel $3.9 billion in federal student debt for 208,000 borrowers. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Former ITT Tech students get $3.9B in debt cancellation

August 16, 2022
FILE - First lady Jill Biden smiles as she is introduced before speaking during the American Federation of Teachers convention, July 15, 2022, in Boston. Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are kicking off a summer learning tour this week with stops in Connecticut, Georgia and Michigan over two days. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Jill Biden, education chief to kick off summer learning tour

July 19, 2022
FILE - Graduates of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley attend their commencement ceremony at the schools parking lot on Friday, May 7, 2021, in Edinburg, Texas. New rules proposed by the Biden administration on Wednesday, July 6, would make it easier for borrowers to get their federal student debt forgiven through several existing programs. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP, File)

More flexibility proposed for student debt forgiveness

July 6, 2022
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 27, 2022. The Biden administration proposed a dramatic rewrite of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday, June 23, moving to expand protections for LGBTQ students, bolster the rights of victims and widen colleges' responsibilities in addressing sexual misconduct. The proposal was announced on the 50th anniversary of the Title IX women’s rights law. Cardona said Title IX has been “instrumental” in fighting sexual assault and violence in education. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

LGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan

June 23, 2022
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks at an event where Vice President Kamala Harris announced the cancelation of all federal student loans borrowed by students to attend any Corinthian Colleges, June 2, 2022, at the Department of Education in Washington. The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who say they were defrauded by their colleges, according to a proposed settlement in a Trump-era lawsuit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Settlement would forgive $6B for defrauded college students

June 23, 2022
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during the 2022 National and State Teachers of the Year event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 27, 2022. The Biden administration says it will forgive all remaining federal student debt for former students of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain. “As of today, every student deceived, defrauded and driven into debt by Corinthian Colleges can rest assured that the Biden-Harris Administration has their back and will discharge their federal student loans,” Cardona said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Former Corinthian students get federal student debt erased

June 1, 2022
FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during the 2022 National and State Teachers of the Year event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 27, 2022. Cardona said Thursday, May 26, that he's ashamed that the country is "becoming desensitized to the murder of children” and that action is needed now to prevent more lives from being lost in school shootings like the one in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

US education chief seeks action to prevent school shootings

May 26, 2022

2 West Virginia students named Presidential Scholars

May 13, 2022

2 Lexington students named 2022 Presidential Scholars

May 13, 2022
Florida Sen. Dennis Baxley, right, the sponsor of a bill, dubbed by opponents as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, hugs an opponent of the bill, Sen. Shevrin Jones, after the bill passed during a legislative session at the Florida State Capitol, Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

US education secretary to Florida LGBTQ kids: Got your back

March 18, 2022
FILE - A man speaks with a police officer in a patrol vehicle outside the Spelman campus, Feb. 1, 2022. after two historically Black colleges in Georgia received bomb threats. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to announce that historically Black colleges and universities, many of which recently received bomb threats, are eligible for federal campus security grants. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Bomb-threatened Black schools eligible for security grants

March 16, 2022
FILE - Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 3, 2013. Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement. Harris will speak in Selma at an event marking the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Kamala Harris to mark ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma

March 2, 2022

US education secretary lauds TSU teacher program in visit

February 22, 2022
FILE - This Nov. 24, 2009, photo, shows the entrance to the DeVry University in Miramar, Fla. The Biden administration says it will cancel more than $70 million in student debt for borrowers who say they were defrauded by the for-profit DeVry University. It marks the first time the Education Department has approved such claims for an institution that's still in operation. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

Loan relief granted to students misled by for-profit DeVry

February 16, 2022
FILE - Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks during a visit with first lady Jill Biden to Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., Jan. 20, 2022. Cardona on Thursday, Jan. 27, called on the nation’s schools to act more urgently to help millions of students who have fallen behind during the pandemic. "We must make up for lost time,” he said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Education chief: ‘We must make up for lost time’ in schools

January 27, 2022

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

December 31, 2021

Mississippi receives over $500K for K-12 school support

December 30, 2021
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