The national political class is going crazy over several of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s pick for Attorney General, and Pete Hegseth, chosen to head the Defense Department, come to mind. Now comes the latest controversial pick: Trump’s choice of Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education.
They bemoan her lack of experience and expertise in education, but is “expertise” at the DOE really what the country’s students need?
We have no particular insight on McMahon and she doesn’t have a deep education record for us to review. But what we do have is the record of the experts that have been running education for decades. And the record is a disaster anyway you cut it – at the national level, the Illinois level, and the city level, namely Chicago.
