Wrestling Executive on Conn. Board The chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has garnered a spot on the Connecticut board of education. Linda McMahon was nominated by Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell to a seat on the 11-member board and approved last month by state lawmakers. (March 2, 2009)

Linda McMahon will start her job as secretary of the federal Department of Education with at least one scandal under her belt. Details.

Incoming Education Sec. Linda McMahon aims to "send education back to the states and empower all parents to choose an excellent education”

The former wrestling mogul will become the nation's 13th secretary of education, and she has pledged to be its last.

McMahon is working to fulfill the Trump administration's goal of slashing the Education Department and return its power to the states.

The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation's education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle.

WWE co-founder Linda McMahon was sworn in as Donald Trump's education secretary on March 3, sharing her 'final mission' for the Carter-era department that she was tapped to lead

McMahon appears to be setting the stage for the dissolution of the department that schools and colleges across the country depend on for funding and support.

In her first week as Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon is wasting no time working to fulfill President Trump's wish to dismantle the department. Erica Meltzer, the national editor for "ChalkBeat," joins "America Decides" to analyze.

Linda McMahon, the secretary of education under President Donald Trump, sent out a memo hinting that her department may soon shut down.