The announcement comes as the president-elect vows to dismantle the DOE.
Linda McMahon, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration, during the America First Policy Institute's America First Agenda summit in Washington, D.C., US, on Monday, July 25, 2022. The non-profit think tank was formed last year by former cabinet members and top officials in the Trump administration to create platforms based on his policies.
Conservatives, led by political figures like Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and groups like Moms for Liberty, have embraced the mantle of parental rights and claimed -- in part because of the window that remote schooling opened into the classroom -- that public school instruction has been hijacked by inappropriate curricula on LGBTQ+ topics, race and discrimination and more.
Trump choosing a confidante for this position and others creates unhelpful groupthink that could potentially lead to bad decision-making for U.S. students, Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president of the advocacy group The Education Trust, told ABC News. While possible in theory, education policy experts who spoke with ABC News suggest that would be an extremely chaotic – and unrealistic — task on Inauguration Day.
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