Trump and McMahon Are Fixing Education, and DC Is Panicking

Jorge Martinez – Education Secretary Linda McMahon is doing exactly what President Donald J. Trump hired her to do: Clean out a failed education bureaucracy, return power to states and parents, and put students – not Washington politics – first. That’s why Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is attacking her.

From the moment Secretary McMahon took the helm at the U.S. Department of Education, she made it clear she would not be another caretaker of a broken system. She has focused on three things Washington has avoided for decades: streamlining a bloated bureaucracy, redirecting resources from federal offices to classrooms, and restoring control of education to states and local communities. In just months, she has delivered more meaningful structural reform than most secretaries attempted in entire terms. Continue reading →