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Trump chooses ex-wrestling boss to manage (and close?) the Department of Education

“Linda McMahon Could Become America’s Last Secretary of Education,” titre Newsweek. President-elect Donald Trump wants to appoint this longtime ally and donor, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment – ​​the major wrestling event organizing company – to head the Department of Education, which he promised several times to close.

Aged 76, Linda McMahon had already led a federal administration under the first presidency of Donald Trump: the Small Business Agency. This time she hoped for the Department of Commerce, but Trump awarded it, Tuesday, November 19, to financier Howard Lutnick.

Announced the same day, his choice for Education is “very far from the traditional model of candidates for this position, observe The New York Times : a senior executive with no experience in teaching or education policy, except on the Connecticut Board of Education, where she was appointed in 2009 and served for a little over a year.”

“We will return education to the States”

“However, Linda McMahon should be entrusted with the delicate task of carrying out a dismantling of the fundamental functions of the Ministry of Education which is announced to be methodical and relentless”, pursued

World

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