Education Secretary Miguel Cardona addressed the Latinos in Education conference and the need for educational equity for Hispanic students.
“There’s a reason for the sense of urgency,” Cardona said in a recorded address at the group’s virtual gathering. “We’ve often heard and maybe even explained that education is the great equalizer. Well, now’s our chance to prove it. Funding is there. Urgency from the president is there. Are we going to lead through this and come out stronger? I say we can.”
Money for universal pre-K and for school construction and modernization also was in the legislation when it left the House Education and Labor Committee. The sums could change as negotiations continue and the legislation works its way through Congress. The group arrived at a long list of recommendations, such as helping Spanish-speaking families understand the benefits of early childhood education, repealing laws that deny higher education and financial aid to undocumented students, preparing Latinos better for college, holding institutes of higher education accountable for Latino college completion rates and recruiting Latino students early in high school to direct more of them into teaching.
High school counselors had been contacting Montclair State University to report that students, many of them Latinos, were choosing not to apply for college because of the pandemic.
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