{"id":32341,"date":"2021-03-03T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32341"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:31:11","slug":"education-secretary-vaccinating-teachers-my-top-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32341","title":{"rendered":"Education secretary: Vaccinating teachers &#8216;my top priority&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education Secretary\u00a0Miguel Cardona\u00a0said Wednesday, the day after he was sworn in, that ensuring that teachers are swiftly vaccinated so that schools can reopen is his \u201ctop priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must continue to reopen America\u2019s schools for in-person learning as quickly and as safely as possible. The president recognizes this, which is why he took bold action yesterday to get teachers and school staff vaccinated quickly,\u201d Cardona said while touring a Connecticut school with first lady\u00a0Jill Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs secretary of Education, that is my top priority,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after\u00a0President Biden\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wwzzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmddlfjzw_ighymmvhvwydybzymnzc.html?a=&amp;b=37338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wwzzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmddlfjzw_ighymmvhvwydybzymnzc.html?a%3D%26b%3D37338&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614902218733000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFpnzLGYeZ9E8VZfVmWJzz68FNipg\">called on all states to prioritize teachers<\/a>\u00a0for COVID-19 vaccinations in order for all teachers and school staff to have received at least one dose of vaccine by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>The trip on Wednesday represented an effort by the Biden administration to show support for schools as they take steps to reopen. Biden has set a goal for most schools to physically reopen in his first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Secretary\u00a0Miguel Cardona\u00a0said Wednesday, the day&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32342,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions\/32342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}