RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has crafted a crowd-sourcing site allowing the public to submit names of people they’d like to see serve in the future Donald Trump administration. As President-elect Trump assembles his cabinet, a key role to appoint will be the U.S. Secretary of Education.
The department employs 4,400 people. It may be too many, according to Michele Morrow.
“I think that there’s a lot of people that we are paying their salaries, but I don’t think that we can find that there is a direct, positive correlation between their job and seeing student success,” Morrow told CBS 17.
While she supports the president-elect’s call to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, Morrow is among those nominated by the public through RFK Jr.’s site to serve the department.
The president has the power to appoint people to more than 4,000 positions.
“If we’re more focused on kids talking about their race, how they feel in their body, or all of these things rather than reading and writing and arithmetic, I think that is what the constraints are,” Morrow said.
Morrow has called for de-politicizing classrooms, saying that’s part of what her campaign for North Carolina superintendent and her future work is about. The Republican lost her run for state superintendent by a narrow margin, but Morrow says she’s proud of her campaign.
“I think 2.7 million people said that they wanted change,” Morrow said. “I think that’s a pretty significant number of people. We can get some serious things done.”
While she continues to call for change in the state and federal education system, Morrow says her involvement is about the children, not a political title.
“When we talk about solutions, we talk about solving the problems and making it so we are at a level playing field because education is the great opportunity maker,” Morrow said.
There has been no word from the Trump transition team on who may be appointed as Secretary of Education or who may be called to support their work.
