Penny Schwinn served as Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's commissioner of education. President Trump nominated her to be U.S. deputy education secretary.

Penny Schwinn brings education experience to a top role in a department Trump says he wants to get rid of. Her tenure in Tennessee was marked by both victories and controversies.

The Trump administration continued its head-scratching appointments by anointing billionaire Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education — even though he had campaigned on a pledge to abolish the ...

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Penny Schwinn, a former Tennessee Department of Education commissioner, has been named by President-elect Donald Trump as his pick to serve as the next U.S. deputy secretary of education.

Penny has a strong record of delivering results for children and families,” President-elect Donald Trump posted late Friday ...

Early in my career as a journalist, I reported on education and one lesson I quickly learned is that state and public school leaders are lightning rods for criticism and controversy. The politics ...

President-elect Donald Trump has named former Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn to serve as Deputy Secretary of Education in his new administration, a move that surprised some ...