WASHINGTON — If Hillary Clinton is elected president, most insiders believe that she would select education researcher Linda Darling-Hammond as secretary of education.
But if Donald Trump were to win, most insiders believe he would select neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate Ben Carson for the post.
Those predictions come courtesy of the latest “Education Insider” released Wednesday by Whiteboard Advisors, a national education consulting firm.
The monthly report — based on interviews with a small group of current and former Hill staffers, federal officials and others in the policy world — stated that 17.9 percent of those surveyed believed Darling-Hammond, faculty director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) would get the post if Clinton were elected.
In the scenario of a Clinton victory, Darling-Hammond — who served as director of President Obama’s education policy transition team — was followed by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (at 14.3 percent) and former Berkeley law school dean and professor Chris Edley Jr., (at 7.1 percent) co-founder of the Civil Rights Project, which is housed at UCLA.
A significantly higher percentage — 28.6 percent — predicted that Carson would be appointed to the post if Trump were elected.
