Trump’s pick to head the Department of Education will be in charge of gutting it.

Former professional wrestling exec and billionaire GOP donor Linda McMahon faced tough questioning—and scattered protests—on Thursday during her confirmation hearing to head an Education Department that President Donald Trump is keen on abolishing.

During two-and-a-half hours of questioning (and opining) by senators, McMahon attempted to thread the needle between Trump’s plans to gut the 45-year-old US Department of Education and federal laws and constitutional guardrails that stand in his (and Elon Musk’s) way. Even as she expressed support for key Trump policies—including private-school voucher programs and bans on trans girls and women from sports—McMahon’s scant experience in education was on display as she misstated, or failed to answer key questions about, federal education law.

  • @[email protected]
    9•8 days ago

    I want someone to

    • hand her a standardized test and ask her to strike out any questions she believes to be inappropriate for students to be asked, and once she has gone through and created a test that meets her standard of anti-wokeness,
    • ask her to take it.

    And I promise you she will fail it outright. I’ll be impressed if she gets 30% of the questions right.

    • @QuarterSwede
      2•7 days ago

      To be fair, standardized testing helped absolutely destroy our education system and is no good indicator of intelligence or learning.