It doesn't matter who reTrump chose as EdSec. The plan is to dismantle the Department of Education. Anyone is qualified.
Linda McMahon, re-Trump's pick for EdSec, has no background in education.
That has some people upset.
Not me.
It so misses the point.
Linda isn’t hired to be an educational leader or to effectively head up a billion dollar federal department.
She is hired to blow the Doe up.
And, really. Who better to blow shit up than the head of the World Wrestling Federation.
Although anyone is qualified to do it.
Although reTrump tried to distance himself from Project 2025 during the election campaign, most of his appointments had their fingers in it.
It remains re-Trump’s blueprint for his administration.
The Department of Education is right there in Chapter 11.
We are going to close the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. and send it back to the States, where it belongs, and let the States run our educational system as it should be run.
“Send it back to the States,” is a MAGA mantra.
That’s what they say about a woman’s reproductive rights too.
We have been fighting this state’s rights bullshit for a couple of centuries, going all the way back to whether some states have the right to enslave people or not.
Dismantling the DoE is not without it’s difficulties.
It has a billion dollar budget and hands out contracts to private companies who have no interest in having to bargain new contracts on a state by state basis.
Having swept both Houses of Congress and the White House (also the SCOTUS) it will be a lot easier.
And it must be said that those Democrats who have run the DoE in the past, like Arne Duncan, who instituted policies like Race to the Top, won the Department few friends.
Still, it would be a terrible thing to lose an agency which was created under Jimmy Carter in 1979.
In 1979, Jimmy Carter proposed a cabinet-level Department of Education in order to “establish policy for, administer, and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights.”
Yes.
Among its charges was to enforce civil rights laws in the states.
No wonder the MAGAs hate it.