This school principal achieved her family’s American dream by becoming the first one to go to college

Source: New York Post

Through July 4, The Post, in conjunction with the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, is featuring US citizens explaining what the American dream means to them in 2026 — including Jayda Pugliese, principal and president of the Nazareth Academy Grade School in Philadelphia. The American dream has a very deep meaning for me because I come from a background in which both of my parents didn’t graduate from high school. I have been hearing impaired from a very young age.