By Auguste Meyrat, The Federalist, November 25, 2024
Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher in the Dallas area. He is the founding editor of The Everyman, a senior contributor to The Federalist, and has written essays for Newsweek, The American Mind, The American Conservative, Religion and Liberty, Crisis Magazine, and elsewhere.
Trump’s hope is that Linda McMahon will work to eliminate the Department of Education altogether — but then the hard work starts.
Last week, Donald Trump nominated Linda McMahon, co-founder of the World Wrestling Entertainment company, the head of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, and two-time nominee for the U.S. Senate, as his secretary of education.
While Democrat critics will deride McMahon’s lack of education experience, many conservatives will see this as her greatest asset. Unlike current Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, an equity-obsessed educrat from Connecticut, McMahon will approach her duty with the necessary pragmatism and detachment that true reform requires. Like any successful businesswoman, she will find solutions, not excuses, for the rising costs and declining performance that have plagued American K-12 government schools for decades. …
