President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Linda McMahon, co-chair of his transition team for the new presidency, as Education Secretary, amid the appointments proposed by the tycoon since he won the presidential election on November 5.
“It is my great honor to announce that Linda McMahon, former administrator of the Small Business Administration, will be the United States Secretary of Education,” reads a statement posted on his Truth Social account.
Trump has highlighted her “experience in leadership and her deep knowledge of both education and business, to empower the next generation of American students and workers.”
He also recalled that McMahon is a “firm defender of parents’ rights” and that she has worked “hard” to “achieve universal school choice in twelve states” in the country, in the last four years in which she has been at the head of the ‘America First’ Policy Institute.
“As Secretary of Education, Linda will fight tirelessly to expand choice to all states, and so that parents can make the best educational decisions for their families,” said the magnate.
McMahon is the co-president of the Republican’s presidential transition team, a task that she is performing in an “incredible” way, Trump celebrated. “She is going to make the United States ‘number one’ in education in the world. We will return education to the states, and Linda will lead that effort,” he said.
Linda was a member for two years of the Connecticut Board of Education, where she was one of the fifteen members who oversaw public education in the state. He also served on the Board of Trustees of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, for over 16 years.
