Linda McMahon, former SBA Administrator and Donald Trump's nominee for Education Secretary, contrasts sharply with her predecessor, Miguel Cardona. The article highlights the failures of Cardona's tenure, including financial mismanagement, opposition to charter schools, and inaction on cultural issues.
Former U.S. Administrator of the Small Business Administration Linda McMahon speaks at the Republican National Convention on July 18 in Milwaukee, Wis.President-elect Donald Trump ’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education is facing the usual attacks any conservative nominee with a deep business background could expect from Democrats and the legacy media.She strikes a much-needed contrast with her soon-to-be predecessor.
Nearly four years ago, Joe Biden selected an education secretary with a resume that checked all the usual boxes. Miguel Cardona was a former public-school teacher turned Connecticut education commissioner. Fawning press coverage lauded his conventional credentials and extolled him as an “easy pick.”The Education Department failed three consecutive audits and presided over a financial aid debacle that depressed freshman enrollment at colleges across the country. It proposed crippling cuts to high-performing charter schools while shoveling billions out the door in unconstitutional student loan forgiveness schemes. Federal bureaucrats dragged their feet on school reopening, then sat on their hands after school closures advocated by national teachers unions erased two decades of learning improvement. Cardona eagerly but selectively waded into culture wars. He openly feuded with conservative governors over parental rights and curriculum policies, but stood silent while antisemitism flared on college campuses. This should serve as a cautionary tale. Conventional education experience provides no assurance that an education secretary will be effective.Education has been a lifelong passion for McMahon. She earned a teaching credential in college before choosing a different career path, helping build her family’s successful sports entertainment business empire. In addition to decades as a trustee of Sacred Heart University, she served on the Connecticut Board of Educatio
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