US Senate to vote on North Dakota education leader Kirsten Baesler's nomination for federal job next week

US Senate to vote on North Dakota education leader Kirsten Baesler's nomination for federal job next week

FARGO — Amid a federal government shutdown, the U.S. Senate took steps Friday, Oct. 3, to pave the way to confirm Kirsten Baesler, North Dakota’s superintendent of public instruction, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education in the U.S. Department of Education next week. The Senate voted 51-46 on Friday to place the confirmation on the Senate calendar for the following week, along with about 100 executive appointees. If Baesl…