Pick for US President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary, Linda McMahonTesting was given to an American Senate Committee on Thursday, “excessive power consolidation” in the department was decipped.
“Our wounds are due to excessive consolidation of power in our federal education establishment,” 76 -year -old businessman, McMahon, said, the committee said during its testimony to observe education issues.
“So what is the solution? Fund education freedom, not government,” he said.
On the campaign mark, Trump promised to shut down the federal education department, saying he would develop his powers for the state governments.
McMahon is a former head of the popular WWE Wrestling League and also works in Trump’s first -term government, as the head of small business administration.
Trump’s threat to closure the education department has angered the Democrats, teachers unions and many parents who see it as an attack on the public education system.
Underlining his intention, the Republican President first directed McMahon to “keep himself out of job”.
On the other hand, conservative groups, shouting it as a longer remedy to re -establish local control over American classes. But they admit that the task of closing the huge department will not be easy.
At the hearing, Senator Burney Sanders said that the department was “providing important resources for 26 million children in this country who live in high poverty schools districts”.
He said that it was “the responsibility of the federal government to get every child in America, whether you are poor, middle class, rich, a quality education.”
McMahon, a prominent donor of the Republican party, has financially supported Trump’s political career since 2016.
She is married to Vince McMahon, a powerful person in WWE, a wrestling empire that was established in the 1950s and combines scripted combat with stunning stunt work and soap-opera-esture-size storylines.
Linda McMahon became its president in 1993 and in 1997, before resigning to try his luck in politics in 1997, 2009.
