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Linda McMahon: “I think we're making such good strides to improve education…”

Featuring: Linda McMahon, Republican | Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education | National

Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon

Published September 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 23:25

So they have a ways to go. So might be able to double it. Yeah. Are you happy in the job? What do you like about it? I like it every day because I think we're making such good strides to improve education in our country. I would consider it a great legacy. It's funny to use that word, but I would consider it a great legacy if, when, at the right time, when I step … (23:25–23:32)

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“The employee count at the Department of Education is down about a half.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 03:48-04:04
“8th graders only reading at 30% proficiency.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 06:24-06:29
“Since the department was established, we've spent over $3 trillion and our scores have come down.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 06:41-06:48
“Congress has always said that it would like to fund it up to 40% of the idea budget, and they've only come about 18 to 20% so far.”
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“1.7 trillion.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 55:45-55:47
“The Department of Education does not control any curriculum in the states.”
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“The Department of Education doesn't hire teachers.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 00:12-00:14
“The Department of Education doesn't buy books.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 00:13-00:15
“The Department of Education is primarily an agency that is a pass through for the funds appropriated by Congress.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 00:16-00:24
“We've spent over $3 trillion and our [NAEP] scores have come down.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 00:46-00:51
“We closed a lot of the buildings other than the primary building that is in Washington, D.C.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 03:56-04:04
“The science of reading has been so proven now in Mississippi with the Mississippi miracle and how their reading scores came up.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 08:12-08:21
“The state of Louisiana has had remarkable improvement in its reading scores. I think they were number one in improvements last year.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 08:26-08:36
“I don't think [getting rid of the Department of Education] will have a negative impact as we return education to the states.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 13:23-13:28
“Instead of dismantling the department or taking down the department, it is really returning education to the states where it needs to be.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 13:31-13:40
“The Department of Education filed suit against five counties, one of them being Loudoun County in Northern Virginia.”
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“You can't give a child an aspirin or a Tylenol in school without calling the parents and getting permission.”
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“There were club activities after school that were... clubs to talk about transgender.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 18:29-18:42
“I also, probably a couple of months ago, had a group in my office who were transgender who had gone through some early on just psychological…”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 19:15-19:30
“There are, you know, there's a rightful place for the idea funds that currently are channeled through the department of Education.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 22:17-22:27
“I absolutely believe there is no one size fits all in education.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 24:32-24:36
“Equity became kind of a bad word. But for many, many years, equity meant opportunity.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 25:55-26:01
“We are teaching teachers to teach that. I just think that's wrong.”
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“The grant process will be more at the governor's and the superintendent's levels, at the states that they're not going to be so much strings…”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 28:11-28:29
“The governor can decide what part of the state he wants to do the competitive or she wants, do the competitive grants within that state.”
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“The president is such a believer in school choice, he does not think that any child should be trapped in a failing school.”
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“They should have the ability to take the funding and have money, follow the child and go to another school.”
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“The donor gets a tax write off dollar for dollar. And that can stack right on top of any state deduction as well for that.”
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“We have failed our children in this country. For us to be so far down the totem pole compared to the rest of the world and our education in…”
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“I'm going Tuesday to Austin, Texas to tour a school and to sit down with the founders there. And it's the Alpha School and it is an AI…”
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“I think we need more teaching assistance, we need more even parents to come in and participate sometimes when they have the time in…”
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“AI does help with a lot because you can do some individual tutoring.”
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“Education is the key. It is absolutely the key to success.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 40:33-40:37
“We have to make sure that our children are the best educated because they are going to run defense and the economy and everything, you know…”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 40:46-40:57
“Congress will vote to return education to the states and to move the different departments that we're working on into agencies.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 45:32-45:44
“We've already signed a memo of understanding with the Department of Labor.”
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“Secretary Duramer and I are already working together on how we can move a portion of like Pell Grant, management, et cetera, out of the…”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 46:37-46:51
“I have the authority to move people into labor and to help fund it out of educational funds for the operation of it.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 46:54-47:03
“In part of the touring that I'm doing, I have been now to, I can't tell you how many community tech colleges where they are absolutely…”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 48:32-48:48
“There was Arapaho Community College in Colorado that is more focused on aerospace and quantum computing.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 49:01-49:11
“We are going to have to reskill our workforce because there will be people that will be put out of a job by more technology.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 50:22-50:29
“We reskill them for that next level, you know, we're going to just continue to create more and more jobs.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 50:38-50:47
“That's why, you know, we have 50 states that are republics that are part of our democracy, and they are the laboratories of innovation, of…”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 53:34-53:44
“It is Absolutely critical to the survival of our country.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 53:55-54:00
“There are caps now, or there will be caps on the amount of loans, you know, that you can take out.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 55:56-56:02
“You don't take any federal funding, God bless.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 56:22-56:25
“Enrollments are declining in our universities around the country.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 56:47-56:52
“The greatest new class of millionaires in our country are those that are involved in the skills and the trades industry.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 58:45-58:52
“The President gave me a charge and gave me leeway to take on this task.”
Ending the Department of Education | Secretary McMahon | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 1:02:15-1:02:22