Trump picks Linda McMahon to head Department of Education

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Education experts suggest closing up the department could gut public education funding and disproportionately impact high-need students across the country.
50% : "McMahon's (sic) only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools, where 90% of students - and 95% of students with disabilities - learn, and give them to unaccountable and discriminatory private schools," Pringle said in a statement to ABC News.
48% : [Trump] closer to his ultimate goal, which is to eliminate the Department of Education."Trump can't abolish the Department of Education on day one without congressional action, but his Agenda47 education platform makes clear he wants to do so "very early in the administration.
45% : Trump wrote on social media.
20% : Trump choosing a confidante for this position and others creates unhelpful groupthink that could potentially lead to bad decision-making for U.S. students, Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president of the advocacy group The Education Trust, told ABC News.

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