Lindsey Burke — Project 2025 Education Chapter Author — Named Education Department Deputy Chief of Staff

Lindsey Burke, author of Project 2025’s Chapter 11 (Department of Education) and Heritage Foundation fellow for 17 years, is named Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Programs at the Education Department, June 9, 2025. Burke’s chapter called for dismantling the department, converting Title I and IDEA funding to block grants, and expanding school choice. Her placement is one of seven confirmed chapter-author-to-executive-role matches in the Project 2025 personnel pipeline across the Trump 2 administration’s first eighteen months.

Burke’s chapter proposed: converting special education (IDEA) and low-income student funding (Title I) to no-strings-attached block grants; moving department services to other agencies; expanding federal school choice via Interior and Defense departmental programs. Trump had signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate the department’s closure before Burke’s appointment. Her insider role positions chapter-author policy knowledge at the senior-official level for implementation of the privatization agenda her chapter designed.