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Linda McMahon’s background in education is limited… Her vision will be to unwind the Department of Education…

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Linda McMahon, Trump’s education pick, faces her confirmation hearing : NPR https://search.app/PG43DLtHVkE9FCL99

Linda McMahon

Nominated for: secretary of education

You might know her from: Linda McMahon is most well-known for leading World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and helping to build it into a multibillion-dollar business. She also led the U.S. Small Business Administration for about two years under President Trump’s first term.

More about McMahon:

McMahon's background in education is limited...

She served for about one year on Connecticut’s State Board of Education.
Up until recently, not much was known about McMahon’s policy positions on education. In January, she shared more about where she stands, including that she supports expanding school choice and career and technical education opportunities for students.
She held leadership positions at WWE for nearly three decades, including CEO. 
If confirmed, McMahon would oversee an agency the president has already moved to diminish.

Executive actions

Nearly two weeks before McMahon appeared to lay out her vision for the Education Department, the White House made clear:

Her vision will be to unwind the department…

The White House confirmed that it is preparing to take executive action to shutter department programs that are not protected by law, and will call on McMahon, once confirmed, to draw up a blueprint for Congress to close the department entirely.

During Thursday’s hearing, the committee’s Republican chairman, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, asked McMahon to elaborate on these plans.

“We’d like to do this right,” McMahon said, saying she would present Congress with a plan to dismantle the department “that I think our senators could get on board with.”

The department cannot be officially closed through executive action alone. It was created by an act of Congress in 1979 and can only be closed by an act of Congress.

Multiple senators asked whether the department’s dismantling would include cuts not just to the department but to the federal funding for K-12 schools it administers, including Title I (for students in lower-income communities) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, for students with disabilities).

McMahon said repeatedly that she considers the department separate from the funding. The former, she said, can be dismantled without affecting the latter. “It is not the president’s goal to defund the programs. It was only to have it operate more efficiently.”

Later, McMahon elaborated that IDEA funding, for example, is protected by statute and would not be targeted for cuts. But, she offered, it might be more effectively administered by a different agency, perhaps the Department of Health and Human Services.

To that, New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Hassan scoffed: “I just want to be clear, you’re going to put special education into the hands of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

Maga Republicans fail to advocate for every one of our precious children. All our Precious Children must receive a strong public education that empowers and uplifts them.

And then we wonder why our children have issues…

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