What Trump’s Education Pick Will Mean for Black Students

Linda McMahon, who led the pro-Trump group America First Action and chairs the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank, is the President-Elect’s pick to lead the Dept. of Education (AP pic courtesy of Malaysia Today under Creative Commons license 4.0).& By Quintessa Williams In yet another controversial pick for his second-term cabinet, President-elect Donald Trump has named Linda McMahon, co-founder of a pro wrestling league and former head of the federal Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, to lead the Education Department — an agency he’s promised to close.& Like Trump’s other picks, McMahon — who helped her now-estranged husband Vince McMahon launch World Wrestling Entertainment and unsuccessfully ran twice for Senate in Connecticut — brings little relevant expertise or experience to the department he wants her to lead. She does, however, have experience on the WWE wrestling mat: & & & & & & View this post on Instagram & & & & & & & & & & & & A post shared by Jesse Hagopian (@jessehagopian) & And like other Trump cabinet choices, McMahon has had to contend with a sex scandal: in October, she was named as a co-defendant in a suit brought...