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Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus

Published April 2, 2026 | Video Starts at 20:53

But when I go to these schools, these kids can't read. It is just, it's unbelievably sad. But now states are the ones, this is not happening from Washington. Right. States are the ones who are being innovative that they're bringing in these programs. The science of reading Miracle, Mississippi took 10 years for the program to get put in place for the teachers to be taught how to teach. (20:53–20:58)

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“Only 30% of our high school seniors, 30 to 35% high school seniors and 8th graders are proficient at reading.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 20:09-20:16
“Universities, colleges and universities are by law required to report foreign funding that comes into their universities and they've just…”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 23:52-23:57
“For every five retirees from our skilled workforce, only two come in.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 35:21-35:28
“By 2030, if we stay on the course we're on right now, we'd be a billion short of workers that we would need.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 35:35-35:40
“It is clearly the president's executive order to do that.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:04-01:09
“If everything works the way we want it to, you will be the last Secretary of Education.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:18-01:23
“States, which already have 90% of their own budget to fund their educational priorities, the government actually provides about 10%.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:30-01:40
“There's no one size fits all in education, and every state needs to do what's best for that state.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 01:44-01:50
“I'm on a Return Education Back to the States tour. I will go to all 50 states.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:26-12:32
“I've been to about 33, 34 states so far.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:32-12:36
“We're doing a History Rocks tour. And I won't be able to go to every one of those, but there will be one in each state.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:37-12:44
“I think we're up to now just about a little over 20 at this point, maybe closer to 30.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:44-12:52
“This is part of the president's 250th anniversary of the country.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 12:52-12:58
“About the same for math in public schools across the country.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 20:15-20:19
“The science of reading Miracle, Mississippi took 10 years for the program to get put in place for the teachers to be taught how to teach.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 20:57-21:07
“The Department of Education was not stood up until 1980.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 21:56-22:02
“The almost $1.7 trillion in student loan debt is managed by the Education Department.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 22:50-23:00
“We totally redid at the Department of Education, the reporting portal [for foreign funding].”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 23:43-23:49
“We totally redid [the FAFSA]. And Congress had said you must have it up and running by October of last year. Well, we had it up and running.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 23:43-39:59
“We now have relocated and are co-administering that program [foreign funding reporting] out of the Department of State.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 23:59-24:11
“Congress will have to vote to shut down the Department of Education and remove it and not to have a secretary.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 24:49-24:57
“We're going to save taxpayers about four and a half million dollars a year just relocating to a smaller building.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 27:21-27:29
“In many states, you cannot [hire experts like engineers to teach without going through the education program and getting licensed].”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 31:19-31:23
“There are states that are looking now to say, hey, you know what? This individual teacher could bring so much to the table.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 31:35-31:42
“There have been four states [where] parents called and told the school they didn't want us to come because they didn't want the partisan…”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 33:36-33:48
“With the president's program to bring manufacturing back to the country doing all of this, we really have to have those skilled workers.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 35:40-35:48
“Community colleges are doing now in working with high schools...students can take courses at the community college...and get credit for…”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 35:51-36:15
“Parents were saying, wow, this is only taking 30 to 35 minutes, whereas it used to take hours or sometimes a couple of days.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 40:02-40:10
“We put some caps, you know, now on student loans...for graduate programs.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 41:03-41:11
“I went to the Alpha School in Austin, Texas with Mackenzie Price.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 42:21-42:27
“The first two hours all the kids are on AI and they're going through their lesson studies.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 42:37-42:42
“I think AI needs guardrails. Yes, clearly needs guardrails.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 44:17-44:21
“It provides an individual tutor sitting at that desk and that algorithm is actually understanding whether or not this child is progressing…”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 44:38-44:50
“We are very systematically, I think, and very prudently moving, not moving, co-administering programs with different agencies.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 46:41-47:01
“The state of Iowa is the first state to opt to take a waiver of 2 or 3 of their grant programs and put them. We did a block grant with them.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 48:01-48:11
“We're offering that to more and more states.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 48:49-48:52
“Only one Democratic governor has come in so far and that's Governor Polis from Colorado.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 49:06-49:14
“This is the education Freedom tax cut. It is actually the first universal school choice program that the president's been able to enact.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 49:25-49:38
“Congress wouldn't have voted for [the program] otherwise.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 49:40-49:42
“Individuals can donate as much as they want into any of these scholarship granting organizations, but they can get a seventeen hundred…”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 50:06-50:17
“Governors aren't opting in [to the program].”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 50:57-51:00
“The governor of Kentucky, who I know has been conservative, concerned about education, said, nope.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 51:56-52:00
“The theory is that it would take money away from public schools. No, no, no. This is private money donated into the state.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 52:07-52:14
“Teachers unions are clearly pushing back, you know, against it somehow.”
Linda McMahon: Ending the Dept. of Ed. & The WWE Legacy | Planet Tyrus | Uploaded April 2, 2026 | 52:26-52:31