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DEmbrace Donald Trump’s campaign promised To cancel the education department. After his re -election, he announced some of the cabinet’s choices who were well qualified for their jobs and it seems that some who seem to have been chosen to cause the maximum damage to the institutions they hope to lead. Looking at the intensity of the Republican war on schools, the choice of Linda McMahon, the co -founder of the global entertainment of wrestling (Wwe), As the Minister of Education appeared in the second category.
A decade ago, Mrs. McMahon was a risky option for the status of the cabinet. She and her husband, Vince McMahon (who was now separated), used to manage an entertainment company that involves muscular representatives in clothes that perform moves with names such as “Stone Cold Stunner” and “Curb STOP”. Mrs. McMahon herself often leads in the ring. On one of her trick, the play of her adult daughter slapped her. In another person, a wrestler from her two ankles commented on her and dropped her on her head.
A few former members of the cabinet have such talents on the biographyS. (Despite Mr. Trump as well Perform several times. In the “Battle of Billionaires” in 2007, Mr. McMahon, and for more humiliation, shaved his head in the ring.) Outside the theater, both McMahons are prosecuted for claiming that the sexual knowledge of the children “Ring”, the children who helped the tasks of the circuit, are prosecuted, inside WWE. (They deny the charges, and the issue is continuing.)
The fact that conservatives should welcome the choice of Mrs. McMahon as head of teachers in the country is a sign of how priorities change. However, it may be one of Mr. Trump’s less controversial choices. It was confirmed in 2017 by the Senate of its former role as head of the small business administration. Her experience in education is limited, but she has some: she was in the Education Council in Connecticut, and she has a teaching certificate from East Carolina University and she is in the Board of Trustees of the Bible University of Connecticut.
Neil McClaski of the Kato Institute, a thinking center, says that Mrs. McMahon is conservative in the small government and Trump’s photographer. But it does not seem to be determined to cancel the education department and everything it does. (To eliminate the administration and its tasks, which range from the Federal Native Loan Department to financing poor schools, Congress will need to act).
For example, I argued about the expansion of Pell grants, federal funds for poor students, to include a short -term workforce training. This may help reduce the deficiency of skilled deals, from health care to manufacturing, which requires more training than high school diploma but not a university degree. According to Makinzi, a consulting company, there were 400,000 openings in January 2024 for skilled jobs such as welding.
To date, it is very reasonable. Mrs. McMahon says that such expansion should come with handrails to ensure that students are already learning and renting. Most members of the Democratic Congress will agree. While maintaining tabs on workforce programs is a function of the federal government, Msmahon may want to trim it elsewhere. It supports rented schools, alternatives to public schools and the accountability of schools for their performance, and the policies that prevailed among the Democrats during the era of Barack Obama. They also support school vouchers, which allow parents to use public funds for private schools, which Democrats (and education researchers do not like).
After Mr. Trump announced his choice, Mrs. McMahon wrote on X: “Thank you, Mr. President … I look forward to working cooperatively with students – deprived – employees and societies to enhance our educational system; ensuring that every child is prepared regardless of the population composition for a bright future . “McMahon may throw the education department a little around, but it barely looks in a mood for the entire body. ■
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