Prior to arriving at Cato, McCluskey was a policy analyst at the Center for Education Reform, taught high-school English, covered municipal government and education as a freelance reporter, and served in the U.S. Army.
McCluskey holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, where he double majored in government and English, has a master’s degree in political science from Rutgers University, Newark, and holds a PhD in public policy from George Mason University.
