McMahon's Education Plan: Block Grants, Less Federal Control

0:00It's April 17. You're listening to Hartford News today, AI-powered local news. I'm Corey with the story. US Education Secretary Linda McMahon laid out her plan at Yale University to cut back the federal bureaucracy in schools and hand more control to states. She wants to keep funding flowing but shifted to block grants so local leaders decide where it goes best. She's backing the Trump administration's big changes to the Department of Education. Like freezing billions in university research grants and pushing, schools to tackle anti-semitism, limit campus protests, and drop diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, McMahon says, with holding funds, make sure colleges use money right and promote equal opportunity. The talk drew from her past as world-wrestling entertainment CEO and small business administration head plus her role in Trump's transition team. It was hosted by Yale's Buckley Institute for intellectual diversity, but she faced backlash when a planned elementary school visit in Fairfield got canceled over community pushback.

1:04Earlier that day, she checked out a Connecticut Community College and met Yale's president, chatting about great inflation and fair grading by. Professors, she described her history rock's tour as fun, nonpartisan trivia on history and civics for the country's 250th anniversary. McMahon wrapped up by sharing how her wrestling days tarher to stay open to new paths, urging folks to re-skill at any age and grab fresh, opportunities without limits.