Last night, following the Senate’s confirmation vote of 51-45, Linda McMahon was sworn in as the Secretary of Education. “I intend to make good on President Trump’s promise to return education to the states, …and free American students from the education bureaucracy through school choice,” McMahon said in a prepared statement. The newly minted Secretary is expected to oversee immediate efforts to implement President Trump’s executive orders and policy vision for the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) and will work to help secure confirmations for pending ED nominees including Penny Schwinn as deputy secretary, Kimberly Richey to lead the Office for Civil Rights, Nicholas Kent to be undersecretary of Education, and Kirsten Baesler to be assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education. President Trump has not yet named nominees for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services or the Office of Special Education. COPAA and NCYL have asked the Office of Civil Rights to provide answers and transparency.