Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Education has announced plans to step down from the position and a replacement has been named.
Pedro Rivera II announced Tuesday that after the beginning of the school year, he will transition out of his current position and into the President of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster.
According to Rivera, the pandemic “intensified our already difficult jobs” with regard to education as well as “underscored the inequalities that exist across our communities”.
A press release from Governor Tom Wolf a short time later announced his intention to nominate current Department of Education Deputy Secretary of Postsecondary and Higher Education Noe Ortega to replace Rivera beginning October 1st. Ortega has spent time in Michigan and Texas as well as training teachers in Japan.