Author: Megan Lim

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona talks with NPR’s Juana Summers about what went wrong and what went right in his department during the Biden administration. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The last four years have been rocky for the Department of Education. K through 12 students who returned to school after pandemic closures suffered record levels of learning loss and have not yet recovered. Many are still absent a lot. A disastrous rollout for last year’s FAFSA – that’s the free application for federal student aid – actually hurt some of the low-income students the new form was intended to help. And…