First lady Jill Biden, education and labor secretaries get glimpse of high school ‘career’ program said to complement federal initiative
Kate Foley, 15 wants to be a biomedical engineer when she leaves school. For now, she is a sophomore at Rolling Meadows High School, in suburban Chicago, where she is enrolled in her school district’s “Career Pathways” program on the engineering track.
On Monday, Foley told First Lady Jill Biden, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and several local educational officials how her interest in Legos and “building things, seeing how things work” had led her into an introductory
