WASHINGTON — Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education, will return to his home state Friday to join Vice President Kamala Harris on her visit to New Haven Friday, where she plans to tour local child care centers and discuss child poverty and education.
Harris has scheduled a listening session at the Boys & Girls Club of New Haven with Cardona, who was Connecticut’s commssioner of education until this year; and Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on how Congress’s recent COVID-19 relief package combats child poverty and supports education.
Then Harris will go to the West Haven Child Development Center where she, Cardona and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, will speak about the package, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
The visit will be Harris’s first to the state since becoming the nation’s first female vice president. Gov. Ned Lamont, joining Harris, will announce a rollout of state aid to child care providers under the relief act.
On his first official day in office, March 3, Cardona visited a Meriden, Conn. elementary school with First Lady Jill Biden to discuss strategies for reopening schools. Cardona is a Meriden native and a former teacher, principal and assistant superintendent there.
It’s unclear whether Cardona and Harris will discuss Cardona’s major efforts these days, returning as many students as possible to in-school classes. He and Lamont shared that goal amid pushback from teachers unions and others in the second half of 2020.
emilie.munson@hearstdc.com; Twitter: @emiliemunson
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