President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, Linda McMahon, picked up a key endorsement in her confirmation bid as leading parental rights organization Parents Defending Education Action threw its support behind the WWE mogul.
The group announced its endorsement in a letter to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-MD) and ranking member Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Parents Defending Education Action slammed the Biden Department of Education for its focus on left-wing activism instead of balanced education amid the decline in student performance.
“We are particularly excited to see Linda McMahon, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, take the helm to launch a resurgence of learning and efficiency into our schools,” PDE Action’s director of federal affairs, Michele Exner, wrote in the letter. “Parents in America deserve an education system that will make their children’s learning and parental involvement a cornerstone of its mission.”
Exner noted that McMahon received 81 votes in being confirmed to the Small Business Administration during the first Trump administration. “Even in a partisan process, there was overwhelming support for Ms. McMahon,” she wrote. “There is no reason to delay — let’s ensure there is a swift confirmation process, so we can have officials in place to start tackling the education crises the Biden administration left behind.”
PDE released a poll on Monday showing that most parents disagree with many diversity, equity, and inclusion and gender-related policies being pushed by the Biden administration. Parents overwhelmingly oppose biological males, even if they identify as females, participating in women’s sports or changing in women’s locker rooms.
They also oppose school administrators withholding information about a child’s gender identity from parents, as well as various restorative justice and racial equity policies, and support changes to the Department of Education affording states more flexibility on how they run their school districts.
The organization released two reports in the last month showing how Biden’s Education Department spent over $1 billion on DEI-related grants, with the Justice Department adding another $100 million on similar grants in K-12.
PDE Action believes McMahon is the right pick for the task of putting a stop to the policies that the group says has turned the Department of Education into “the source for the outrage many families have felt” over the last four years.
“Parents have had enough,” the PDE Action letter says. “And for millions of families, January 20th, 2025, cannot come soon enough. They are excited for a new era of education in America.”
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“They are looking forward to leadership, both in the White House and in Congress, that will finally get rid of disastrous DEI policies, return to a meritocracy, and increase school choice for families,” it added.
McMahon will need 50 votes in the Senate to be confirmed as secretary of education, which means if every Democrat voted against her, it would take all but three Senate Republicans to secure her confirmation.
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