I thought Trump was going to do away with the Department of Education and government involvement with schools?
Trump can’t do away with more than Congress will allow him to do away with.
Geez, think people. Just like Sarah commented on leading the shortest tenure ever for Energy Secretary, each of the alphabet soup departments and agencies will need someone to orchestrate the shutdowns. Maybe his experience with the charter schools is what his position will be in managing the move in that direction and hand off a program that is actually working as a model to the states while the other is being shut down. It is not going to happen over night even though we all want it to.
Trump knows he cannot do it all himself and I see this as nothing more than picking his management team to hit the ground running to start the re-transformation. Is it all that difficult to comprehend?