The nation has a new secretary of education and she's angling to free her department from its special education obligations.

However, since taking office, Trump has said he would like to use executive action to dismantle or at least diminish the agency. And in a statement about his nomination of Linda McMahon for education secretary,

Larry Wexler is enjoying a hard-earned retirement, but if you ask him about his former life, he beams. “I had the greatest job in the world,” said Wexler, of Maryland. For more than three decades, the former public school teacher worked at the U.