Miguel Cardona

“I think all schools should be supporting students who are struggling.”

“Every day America's teachers change lives, and every day those lives change the world.”

“We know that when students learn in a diverse student body, they get a better education. Everyone benefits from that.”

“In my experience, great teachers are also quintessential lifelong learners.”

“I'm a dad, and I want to talk about raising the bar in education. But I won't sit idly when some try to attack our schools or privatize education.”

“I've been in education, you know, about 25 years. Not including the time I was in higher ed as a student.”

“We need to make sure we're supporting our educators, giving them the working conditions where they feel connected to the community and feel supported in the work that they're doing. Critically important work.”

“If we look at the data, and we see that some children are achieving more than other children, it's incumbent upon us to make sure that all children can achieve.”

“Our educators - it doesn't take a pandemic for us to appreciate what teachers can do.”

“When I was commissioner of education in Connecticut, we saw that roughly one-out-of-every-four students in the state didn't have access to a computer when we went to remote learning.”

“We need to look at it as every school needs to be experts in how to teach the English language and understand the culture of the students that they're serving.”

“I'm trying to elevate what's working across the country.”

“I was one of those kids who didn't want to bring up FAFSA to my parents because I didn't want to put them through that. It was very intimidating and confusing.”

“We recognize higher education should be accessible to more people in this country, and you shouldn't be settled in debt for the rest of your life.”

“I, being bilingual and bicultural, am as American as apple pie and rice and beans.”

“We have to continue with the support of our students' mental health, and our educators' mental health.”

“We want to promote free speech and, to be frank with you, college campuses are where students should be able to express different opinions. But when it comes to antisemitism or Islamophobia, that has no place on our college campuses or in our schools.”

“A college degree remains one of America's surest paths to well-paying, rewarding careers. But too many underserved students - especially students of color - are left behind.”

“We know vaccinations are the best tool we have to fight this Omicron virus and COVID-19 in general.”

“We won't stop fighting to deliver more relief and open doors of opportunity to more Americans more quickly.”