US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona visits Little Rock [Video]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona visited Little Rock on Tuesday to hear from student loan borrowers and tout White House plans for debt forgiveness and financial aid.

In a discussion with several educators, Cardona discussed how the Biden administration is working to fix the nation’s “broken higher education system.”

While the Department of Education is working on improvements, Cardona said they’ve also faced some challenges. 

“We have a broken higher education system in our country,” Cardona said. “It’s not affordable… not accessible to all, and it’s not easy to shift.”

Cardona said he’s focused on improving it.

At Tuesday’s roundtable discussion, educators from the Pine Bluff and Little Rock school districts shared stories about when they found out their student loans were forgiven.

“I’m no longer burdened with expenditures that I had with my student loan debt,” LRSD teacher …