Project 2025 Author Goes to the Education Department

In The Politics of Autism, I write about social services, special education and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 

Katherine Knott at Inside Higher Ed:

An influential conservative policy expert who has advocated for closing down the Education Department is joining the agency.

The Trump administration announced Friday that Lindsey Burke, the director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, will be the department’s deputy chief of staff for policy and programs. Burke also authored the Education Department chapter of Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint that called for sweeping changes to higher education policy, from privatizing student loans to rolling back LGBTQ+ protections in Title IX.

Project 2025 proposes to turn IDEA into a "no strings" block grant, effectively gutting the law and destroying protections that disability families have long relied upon.