Exclusive: 12 Education Chiefs Ask McMahon for More Control over Federal Funds

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Some state education chiefs aren’t wasting any time letting the new administration know what they want. A dozen state leaders, all from Republican-led states, wrote to Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee, last week asking her to push for greater state control over federal education funds and to avoid issuing guidance they say is “not anchored in law.” In the Jan. 28 letter, shared exclusively with The 74, they also want McMahon, former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, to send large buckets of funding for schools, like Title I money for low-income students, as a block grant. But they stopped short of stating support for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education — President Donald Trump’s top education policy goal. The letter doesn’t mention the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which under one bill in Congress, would move to the Department of Health and Human Services.

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