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Linda McMahon, the US education secretary, has a uniquely fateful task: President Donald Trump wants her to be the last person ever to run the agency he’s long sought to dismantle.

Yet even as she has been executing the president’s vision, cutting jobs and moving core functions of the Department of Education to other parts of government, she is seeking to put a MAGA-inspired stamp on public schools, at the behest of the president.

Under McMahon, the department is moving to protect prayer in public schools and tie funding to “patriotic” curriculums.

Separately, the agency announced that it would partner with conservative organizations, including Turning Point USA and the America First Policy Institute, to promulgate “civic education” in schools,

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