U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Vermont on Friday.He was joined by Vermont’s Secretary of Education Dan French and other education officials to tour the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes and Champlain Elementary Schools in Burlington.He visited a preschool classroom, spoke to teachers about after school programs, visited a vaccine clinic at Champlain Elementary where students ages 5-11 were getting there COVID-19 vaccines, and spoke with parents about things they want to see in the education system.Sec. Cardona said he plans on taking what he learned in Vermont back to Washington. “We want to hear what’s working really well so that when I’m in Washington and I’m having conversations with policy makers across the country, I can look to this model and say, ‘Call over there or talk to the secretary (of education) in Vermont because they’re doing it right,” Cardona said.He also stopped by a second grade classroom where students made birthday cards for President Joe Biden, who turns 79 years old on Saturday.He promised the students that the birthday cards would get to the president over the weekend.Overall, he praised Vermont’s school systems and was particularly pleased with the rate of vaccinations for kids ages 5-11 and hopes to see that continue.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Vermont on Friday.
He was joined by Vermont’s Secretary of Education Dan French and other education officials to tour the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes and Champlain Elementary Schools in Burlington.
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He visited a preschool classroom, spoke to teachers about after school programs, visited a vaccine clinic at Champlain Elementary where students ages 5-11 were getting there COVID-19 vaccines, and spoke with parents about things they want to see in the education system.
Sec. Cardona said he plans on taking what he learned in Vermont back to Washington.
“We want to hear what’s working really well so that when I’m in Washington and I’m having conversations with policy makers across the country, I can look to this model and say, ‘Call over there or talk to the secretary (of education) in Vermont because they’re doing it right,” Cardona said.
He also stopped by a second grade classroom where students made birthday cards for President Joe Biden, who turns 79 years old on Saturday.
He promised the students that the birthday cards would get to the president over the weekend.
Overall, he praised Vermont’s school systems and was particularly pleased with the rate of vaccinations for kids ages 5-11 and hopes to see that continue.
