What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities

The New Yorker 

President Donald Trump, winner of the Battle of the Billionaires at WrestleMania 23, has maintained close ties with Linda McMahon, the former C.E.O. of World Wrestling Entertainment, for decades. During the President's first term, she served for two years as head of the Small Business Administration, stepping down in 2019 to lead America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC. Now McMahon is Trump's nominee to run the U.S. Department of Education, although she may appear to lack conventional bona fides for the position. If McMahon is confirmed by the Senate, her odd task will be to take charge of an agency in order to euthanize it. "I told Linda, 'Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job,' " Trump said, on February 4th.