'Betsy DeVos 2.0': Trump Picks WWE Billionaire Linda McMahon to Lead Education Department | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump touted McMahon's work to expand school "choice" -- a euphemism for taxpayer-funded private school vouchers -- and said she would continue those efforts on a national scale as head of the Education Department.
52% : "We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort," Trump said in a statement posted to his social media platform, Truth Social.
48% : McMahon is one of several billionaires Trump has selected for major posts in his incoming administration, which is teeming with conflicts of interest.
47% : "During his first term, Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to undermine and ultimately privatize public schools through vouchers," said the president of the National Education Association.
46% : "U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced late Tuesday that he intends to nominate Linda McMahon, the billionaire former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, to lead the Department of Education, a key agency that Republicans -- including Trump and the authors of Project 2025 -- have said they want to abolish.McMahon served as head of the Small Business Administration during Trump's first White House term and later chaired both America First Action -- a pro-Trump super PAC -- and the America First Policy Institute, a far-right think tank that has expressed support for cutting federal education funding and expanding school privatization.
40% : ""During his first term, Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to undermine and ultimately privatize public schools through vouchers," NEA president Becky Pringle said in a statement.
31% : "Now, he and Linda McMahon are back at it with their extreme Project 2025 proposal to eliminate the Department of Education, steal resources for our most vulnerable students, increase class sizes, cut job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle-class families, take away special education services for disabled students, and put student civil rights protections at risk.
30% : The National Education Association (NEA), a union that represents millions of teachers across the U.S., said in response to the president-elect's announcement that McMahon is "grossly unqualified" to lead the Education Department, noting that she has "lied about having a degree in education," presided over an organization "with a history of shady labor practices," and "pushed for an extreme agenda that would harm students, defund public schools, and privatize public schools through voucher schemes.

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