White House Plans to Dismantle Education Department; sparking debate

Parents, educators, Community Leaders, and Elected Officials Attend a Rally Outside The Us Capitol to Defend Public Education Ahead of Secretary of Education Ary 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. , Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP

Linda McMahon, Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary Faces an unusual test on Thursday (February 13, 2025) as she seeks Senate Approval to Lead an agency the president Wants her to destroy.

The republican president has promised to close the agency, say it has been informed by “radicals, zealots and marxists.”

Plan to dismantle education department

A plan being considered by the white house would direct the education secret to dispensing the department as much as much as examined with asking Congress to abolish eit completion.

At a white house news conference last week, Mr. Trump said he wanted mcmaon “to put herself out of a job.”

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Mr. Trump has yet to sign an order on the department’s shutdown, and some of McMahon’s Advisers Pressed to Delay it until after her hearing. Yet it’s expected to be the Central Subject of Thursday’s Hearing Before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Democrats have been gearing up to grill McMahon on Her willingness to Execute Trump’s plan, which opponents say would undermine public education. Mr. Trump Hasn’t Said Whether he would preserve the core work of the agency, which sends bills of dollars a year to schools, manages a $ 1.6 trillion study portfolio and enforcilao RIDULIOSISITSICE

In a letter to ms. McMahon this week, democratic senses. Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim Said She’ll be asked if she supports trump’s plan, and what action she will take to carry it out. It asks ms. McMahon for Commitments to preserve the department’s students and civil rights office, Among other programs highlighted by the democrats.

MS. McMahon is a longtime trump ally who is a billionaire as a ceo of world wrestling entertainment. She left the wrestling Empire in 2009 to launch a political career, running unsuccessfully twice for the US Senate in Connecticut. McMahon has given millions to trump’s campaigns, and during his first term, he picked her to lead the small business administrative.

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MS. McMahon has a more limited education track record than most previous secretaries. She spent a year on the connect board of education and is a longtime trustee at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. MS. McMahon Has Called for Expeded School Choice Programs, Along with a Focus on Apprenticeships and Alternatives to Traditional College Degrees.

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At a 2009 hearing to serve on connecticut’s education board, MS. McMahon said she planned to become a Teacher after college but insted work at a law firm before building WWE with Her Husband, VINCE.

That Urging Senators to Reject MS. McMahon Include the National Education Association – The Nation’s Larget Teachers Union – and Advocacy Groups Calling for Stronger Title IX Protections for Victims of Sexual Assault.

Republicans Praise Her Business acmens and say she’s a good pick to change the course of American education. Sen. Bill Cassidy, Chair of the Health and Education Committee, Met With MS. McMahon in January and Said She’s “Prepared to Return Power to Parents and Reform an education department that has lost the plot.”