Miguel Cardona

If we want to prepare our students for the workforce of tomorrow, we need labs in our schools where students can learn hands on, state-of-the-art facilities where they can get the highest levels of learning to be successful in life.

I have complete confidence in the educators across the country who have been dealing with this.

I think you're missing the point here, where students need to feel welcome into our schools, and we need to create welcoming environments.

This is another example where it demonstrates a lack of confidence in our educators to be able to meet our students where they are.

To me, it's a form of predatory schooling almost when you have someone 80, 90 thousand dollars in debt.

I fully support the notion that every school across the country should provide high-quality education, and while I understand choice, parents should have choice, it should never come at the expense of a school.

I think the transparency, what you brought up is critically important.

We recognize now that if we don't act with urgency, we are going to lose many of our students who are thinking about higher education as an opportunity to continue their growth.

We have to make it happen for our students, Senator.

This plan would allow 5.5 million students to have access to higher education who might not have had it previously.

this budget proposes strategies to get there.

We really need to focus on early childhood education, and literacy skills early, science-based, research-based practices.

The increase in Pell Grants, which is significant under the American Families Plan, $1,400, and $400 increase here in this budget show the commitment that the President has toward ensuring equitable access to higher education for our…

The President made it very clear. You know, we don't--we are not going to be promoting a private charter school growth, but we are endorsing the programs that exist now where students are taking advantage of public charter schools.

We are addressing the issues that exist, where students are being taken advantage of, or sold a bill of goods and never delivered on.

the simplification process is critically important, but the reality is we walked into a system that doesn't have the capacity.

the opportunity gaps and achievement disparities and outcomes are significant, so much so that I have been an educator for over 20 years, it has almost become normalized.

I do expect 100 percent of the students across the country to have access to in-person learning.

we can't get to equalizing the playing field if the resources are not being used where they are supposed to.

this budget proposes strategies to get there.

the opportunity gaps and achievement disparities and outcomes are significant, so much so that I have been an educator for over 20 years, it has almost become normalized.

I will add that as we rolled out the American Rescue Plan, we required States to provide transparent reports on how they were going to use the money.

I think our students deserve it and we need to make it happen.

I want to make sure we get it done.

There is no replacement for in-person learning.