CASE issued a statement today praising President Trump’s nomination of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education. An enormously successful business executive with government experience as former head of the Small Business Administration (SBA), McMahon will take the reins of a government agency currently marked with a shocking level of incompetence regarding its failure to timely implement new FAFSA rules on student loan applications.

The Department of Education (DOE) is further mired in enormous controversy for their numerous illegal attempts to cancel billions of dollars in student loans and an ideological battle to shut down alternative educational institutions, career-oriented colleges especially.
“The DOE is an absolute mess, on all levels, and as an extremely competent, successful, and thoughtful executive Linda McMahon is the ideal person to right the ship,” said Gerard Scimeca, chairman of CASE.

“For four years we’ve watched Biden’s education bureaucrats thoroughly disregard their responsibility of serving the needs of America’s students and instead pursue wholly ideological agendas that serve only themselves and the left-wing Washington education bureaucracy. Even in the face of a stern and crystal clear rebuke by the U.S. Supreme Court, Biden’s DOE continued to push for millions of people to have their student loans forgiven and the cost passed on to ordinary taxpayers. Their arrogance knows no bounds.”
Scimeca continued to highlight longstanding public criticism of the agency.

“Most importantly, McMahon will end the DOE’s senseless and reckless attack against career colleges that serve the needs of millions of adult learners, military personnel, veterans, and minorities in their quest for more career opportunities and a better life. From their bunker in Washington, DC DOE bureaucrats repeatedly threw figurative hand grenades at career skills institutions as well as religious schools like Liberty and Grand Canyon universities: the gainful employment rule, 90/10, and a policy of “sue and settle” to force alternative schools to heel at their authority.

“Whether President Trump is able to dismantle the DOE as he has stated, we know that under his administration and the leadership of Secretary McMahon that U.S. students seeking a higher education degree will have an advocate in their corner, one who wants to reform a system held in the iron grip of education elitists who looked down on average Americans looking for educational opportunities wherever they may be found. She will make education more local and less federal, less ideological, and promote more choice and opportunity for consumers who are making an enormously momentous decision in deciding their educational options. We look forward to her desperately needed reforms and a new day in higher education that will make both our education system and our economy stronger.”