Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star , said more questions have mounted as to why President Donald Trump chose Penny Schwinn to be his administration’s Deputy Secretary of Education after her testimony in front of U.S. senators this week.

On Thursday, Schwinn testified in front of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions where she painted a misleadingly positive picture of her tenure as the former Tennessee Education Commissioner.

Schwinn, who resigned amid controversy in 2023, was criticized by Tennesseans from the moment Trump announced her appointment earlier this year for spearheading a controversial “monthly child well-being” inspection program while she was education commissioner in Tennessee.

In addition, Schwinn also faced controversies relat

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