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President-elect Donald Trump has named Linda McMahon, who served as administrator of the Small Enterprise Affiliation for 2 years in his first administration, as his nominee for U.S. secretary of schooling.
In an announcement posted to Trump’s social media platform Reality Social at near 9 p.m. EST Tuesday, Trump stated, “Linda will use her a long time of Management expertise, and deep understanding of each Schooling and Enterprise, to empower the subsequent Technology of American College students and Staff, and make America Quantity One in Schooling within the World.”
Trump’s submit additionally referred to his marketing campaign promise to get rid of the U.S. Division of Schooling. “We’ll ship Schooling BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort,” his submit stated.
Who’s Linda McMahon?
McMahon, a former president and CEO of World Wrestling Leisure, an organization that develops and produces scripted wrestling occasions, at present serves as co-chair of the Trump-Vance transition group.
She has served on the Connecticut State Board of Schooling and as a trustee at Sacred Coronary heart College, a non-public Catholic establishment in Fairfield, Connecticut. She is at present the treasurer on the college’s Board of Trustees, based on Sacred Coronary heart‘s web site.
McMahon can also be board chair at America First Coverage Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan analysis group that helps free enterprise and nationalism. Trump praised her advocacy at AFPI for state-level common faculty selection insurance policies: “As Secretary of Schooling, Linda will battle tirelessly to increase ‘Selection’ to each State in America, and empower mother and father to make the very best Schooling selections for his or her households.”
In line with EdChoice, a pro-school selection nonprofit group, at the very least one type of non-public faculty selection is obtainable in 33 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. EdChoice stated earlier this yr that enrollment in non-public faculty selection packages exceeded 1 million college students for the primary time.
In 2012, McMahon gained the Connecticut Republican main for U.S. Senate however misplaced to present Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she would succeed Miguel Cardona because the thirteenth U.S. schooling secretary because the division’s founding in 1979.
