He testified in January at the state’s fair-funding trial in Harrisburg that Pennsylvania cannot reach its goals for post-secondary enrollment and completion without investing more in K-12 education. Ortega has backed greater financial support for public schools. Before that, he spent nearly a decade working in financial aid and enrollment management at public and private universities in Texas. “It has been a tremendous honor to lead the department of education during an unprecedented moment in the history of the commonwealth and I am extremely proud of the accomplishments made and the resiliency demonstrated by the team throughout my tenure,” Ortega said in a Friday statement.īefore joining the department in 2017, Ortega spent eight years at the University of Michigan, where he held several roles, including assistant director at the National Center for Institutional Diversity and managing director for the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. He previously served as the department’s deputy secretary. Ortega has led the department since 2020, when Wolf nominated Ortega to lead the agency the state Senate confirmed him in 2021. Once considered as a solid contender to be Philadelphia’s first Latino superintendent, Noe Ortega will step down next week as Pennsylvania’s education secretary, Gov.
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