Biden’s Pick for Secretary of Education

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Joe Biden's pick for Secretary of Education will face pressure for the department to hand down "guidance" to tell schools when and how to open or close as the pandemic continues. Neal McCluskey explains why the feds need to stay out of it.

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0:00.0	This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, January 4th, 2021.
0:07.0	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:08.0	Joe Biden's pick to head the Department of Education
0:11.0	is neither a union leader nor a representative of parents or
0:14.0	students the groups that public education in the US is supposed to be serving.
0:18.6	Cato's Neil McCluskey details the background and future potential challenges faced by the likely next Secretary of Education,
0:27.0	Miguel Cardona.
0:28.0	He is not one of the bigger names that was being floated for the job.
0:32.0	Most of the discussion was about whether... that was
0:33.6	about whether current or former Teacher Union presidents
0:38.3	would be nominated to be the Secretary.
0:41.6	We saw the name Randy We're
0:42.8	Wigarden of the American Federation of Teachers.
0:45.7	We saw a former president of the National Education
0:48.1	Association floated as names that could be nominated. caused you know within the at least
0:54.9	education community a whole lot of either glee or consternation glee if you
0:59.2	think that teachers unions have been pushed aside too far and that they need to have a seat at the table.
1:06.2	Constrination if you were afraid that the Biden administration was going to be in the pocket of the
1:12.4	teachers unions
1:13.8	when it come to education policy.
1:15.6	So maybe the biggest thing to know about Miguel Cardona
1:19.4	is who, he isn't.
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