What the actual fark.
pretty sure thereâs something in the ten commandments about this
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Itâs embarrassing. They are under the spell of a narcissist who couldnât give two â â â â â about them.
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Speaking of:
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An actual teacher!!?!
Senate confirms Miguel Cardona as education secretary
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Miguel Cardona, President Bidenâs pick for education secretary, testifies during his confirmation hearing in early February. (Susan Walsh/AP)
The Senate confirmed Miguel Cardona to serve as education secretary Monday, vaulting the little-known Connecticut educator into the center of the national debate over how to reopen schools for face-to-face classes.
The Senate vote was a bipartisan 64-33 for Cardona, whose nomination moved through the Senate without any significant controversy. It marked a strong contrast to his immediate predecessor, Betsy DeVos, who needed the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Mike Pence to win confirmation.
âAt this moment of crisis, Dr. Cardona is exactly the leader we need at the Department of Education,â said Sen. Patty Murray (D.-Wash.), chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee. âHe has the experience, principles and perspective that we need in this critical role.â
Cardona, 45, was born into poverty to Puerto Rican parents before becoming a public school teacher, principal, administrator and, in 2019, Connecticutâs education commissioner.
As education secretary, he will be tasked with helping to reopen schools, addressing long-standing equity gaps exacerbated by the pandemic and managing the federal governmentâs $1.5 trillion student loan portfolio.
Cardona, who will be sworn into office Tuesday morning by Vice President Harris, is expected to immediately jump into the school reopening debate. On Wednesday, he will travel to his hometown of Meriden, Conn., with first lady Jill Biden for an event about school reopening.
In Connecticut, Miguel Cardona led a full-court press for schools to reopen
He was chosen in part based on his track record in pushing Connecticut schools to reopen for in-person learning this fall. In his confirmation hearing before the Senate Education Committee, he said he approached the job with a spirit of cooperation.
âWe were open and transparent with what we knew, and we made sure that we partnered with our health experts to put out very clear guidance early on to make sure that the mitigation strategies were very clear,â he said. âI look forward to, if Iâm fortunate enough to serve as secretary of education, to bring that same mentality of partnership and clear communication to help recover our public education and reopen our schools.â
The Education Department has already published a handbook meant to help schools develop policies for operating in person, such as how to promote universal mask use and how to ensure distancing inside buildings. The agency is expected to publish a second volume soon addressing issues such as social and emotional needs of students, lost instructional time and stabilizing the educator workforce.
Biden pushes full-time school, but districts are cautious after CDC weighs in
Cardona also promised to address questions of inequity in the nationâs education system, saying the pandemic has exacerbated long-standing concerns.
âThese inequities will endure, and they will prevent the potential of this great country unless tackled head-on,â he said. âIt would be my greatest privilege if confirmed to forge opportunity out of this crisis.â
During committee deliberations, Cardona drew some GOP criticism for his support of transgender girls who want to participate in girls sports. On Monday, some Republicans cited general opposition to the Biden agenda.
âI will again vote against Miguel Cardona, because he will be a champion for Bidenâs union-focused progressive policies,â said Sen. Tim Scott (R.-S.C.), who serves on the education panel.
While Cardonaâs experience is almost exclusively in K-12 education, much of the Education Departmentâs work is around higher education and the federal student loan program.
Cardona will face pressure from colleges and advocacy groups to expand eligibility for emergency grant funding in the federal rescue package. Under DeVos, the Education Department shut out undocumented and international students. The Biden administration is reviewing the policy, according to people familiar with the issue who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Much of Bidenâs higher education agenda will require congressional action, including tuition-free public college and doubling the Pell Grant award for college students from low-income families. But advocacy groups expect Cardona to deliver on Bidenâs promise to exercise tougher oversight of for-profit colleges through reinstating regulations scuttled by DeVos.
Cardona also will have to contend with Trump-era rules that limit loan forgiveness for defrauded borrowers and regulations on how schools investigate sexual harassment and assault.
Another hot-button issue is student debt cancellation. Liberal Democrats are calling for the cancellation of up to $50,000 in federal student debt per borrowers, far more than the $10,000 Biden supports. White House officials say the administration is reviewing whether the president can use executive authority to forgive some federal debt.
During his confirmation hearing, Cardona said he would use the tools available to him to provide borrowers with immediate relief.
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How long will the QANON devotees continue to believe in it as each one of the momentous events it predicted, fail to eventuate?
Now we have the predicted reinstatement of Trump a POTUS on March 4.
Guess what. Its not going to happen. But what will happen to the believers unshaken belief, and why do those promoting the movement continue to predict these events, the failure of which will only eat away at the foundations of the belief?
Christ never came back. At least not with the fanfare he deserved. But the wise men of Christian churches were always very careful not to predict too many things they could not control.
My conclusion is that the guys that run churches are much smarter than the idiots that run QANON. After all Christianity has lasted for 2020 years. I doubt QANON will last 20 years TBH.
So where tf is the Triple named rifleman with the Dump in his sites already?
Farkers got to go one way or the other.
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Cognitive dissonance.
Itâs incredible to think that the original accusations brought up by âQâ, the paedophile ring run out of a pizza restaurant basement accusations, contained a fatal flaw which didnât matter to conspiracy theoristsâŚthe flaw being that the restaurant doesnât have a basement⌠kinda proves the accusations were a hoax⌠but â â â â like that doesnât matter to meat heads.
Yeah but how do you prove something doesnât have a basement?
Itâs probably once of those special cosmic basements that exist in a different time and dimension, similar to the inside of the Tardus.
If that sounds far fetched, one could simply visit the place (armed or otherwise) and check for yourselfâŚoh, thatâs already been doneâŚlol.
Iâm being actually a tad serious here, ⌠itâs the argument they make, and I have to say, just because a basement doesnât appear on any plans, or thereâs no obvious entrance to one, hardly means there couldnât be one.
Unless there was definitive proof of the ilk of council plans that show a sewer main high voltage cables or a subway or something running u/neath it in a way that such a thing could simply not exist, thereâs really no way of knowing, is there?
I mean nefarious activities &/or ill-gotten goods in secret illegally constructed basements has been a thing since forever.
Well CLEARLY the guy who âclaimedâ to investigate there last time was a deep state operative who was in on the conspiracy, and this was a false flag cover operation to discredit the patriots who were getting too close to the truthâŚ
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Actually, I think youâre confusing conspiracy theories. The pizza-parlour conspiracy pre-dated Q. I donât think Q is meant to have originally referenced that at all.
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Those plans probably do exist, and short of digging the place up or pressing the third brick on the fourth row on the back wall, there will never be proofâŚ
And is in jail now, thanks for your efforts, broâŚ!!
Yep, sans any definitive proof, thatâs exactly what theyâd have to do to fully debunk the bullshit.
Annnnd youâre right. ugh. Pizzagate predates Q. I was getting mixed up.