Jonathan Butcher
Acting Director
Jonathan Butcher is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
He has researched and testified on education policy around the U.S., including testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He serves as chair of the South Carolina Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He is the author of The Polarization Myth: America’s Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex (Encounter Books, December 2025) and Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth (Bombardier Books, April 2022).
Jonathan also co-edited and wrote chapters in the book The Not-So-Great Society, which provides conservative solutions to the problems created by the ever-expanding federal footprint in preschool, K-12, and higher education.