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Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy will become the new president and CEO of  the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education after serving as a professor and dean of the School of Education at American University.

Melina Kiper, formerly the senior strategist for education at UnidosUS, is now the chief of staff in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education in the District of Columbia.

Danielle Griswold Branson, formerly deputy superintendent of academics and schools at the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education, has joined Cognia as chief assessment officer.

Kayla Patrick, formerly a policy advisor in the office of planning, evaluation, and policy development at the U.S. Department of Education, is now a senior policy advisor.

Brooke James, previously a program officer at the Walton Family Foundation, is now the managing director at Teaching Lab Ventures.

Dr. Erin Bogan, previously senior director of impact and research at Equal Opportunity Schools, is now senior program officer for K-12 Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Robin Gelinas Berkley, former strategic consultant and founder of RGB Advisors, now serves as the Director of Education at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

Doug Lederman, editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed, is stepping down after 20 years with the organization.

Gini Pupo-Walker, former executive director of EdTrust Tennessee, is now the director of national education strategy at the Raikes Foundation.

Nicolle Grayson Matthews, former senior director of communications at EdTrust, is now the vice president of communications at the organization.

Dr. Amy Loyd, former assistant secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education, is now the CEO of All4Ed.

Debbie Veney, former senior vice president of communications at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, is the founder and CEO of Agency Inc.

Dr. Christine Pitts, former board president of Open School, has been appointed as the interim president and chief executive officer for the upcoming academic year.

Melissa Aviles-Ramos, currently the deputy chancellor for family and community engagement and external affairs in New York City Public Schools, has been appointed as the new chancellor, effective January 2025.

Adam Harris, who previously wrote for The Atlantic, is now a senior fellow at New America.

Cheryl Oldham, former senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and vice president of education and workforce policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is now the executive vice president of human capital at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Thomas Flagg, director of the Directorate of Business Application Services (DBAS) at the U.S. Department of Labor, has been appointed as the new chief information officer for the Department of Education, effective October 6.

Carrie M. Douglass, co-founder and former co-CEO of School Board Partners, is joining the Gates Foundation as chief of staff to the president and director of strategy, planning, and management for U.S. Programs.

President Biden has nominated Adam Gamoran, president of the William T. Grant Foundation, to serve as the next director of the Institute of Education Sciences.

Allison Dembeck, who was previously at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is now the head of policy at Save the Children US.

Elizabeth Fiveash Rush, formerly the interim CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Center, has been appointed as the permanent CEO.

Akeshia Craven-Howell, formerly the associate superintendent for student assignment and school choice at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina, now leads Bellwether‘s strategic advising practice.

Emily Hartnett, formerly principal at the ILO Group, is now the executive director of Women Leading Ed.

Sarah Garland, who has led The New York Times metro education coverage, will be the newspaper’s next education editor. Additionally, Troy Closson will be covering national K-12 news during correspondent Sarah Mervosh’s parental leave.

Taylor Maag, formerly the director of workforce development policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, now serves as the director of workforce policy at Jobs for the Future.

Kaya Henderson, the founder of Reconstruction and former Chancellor of DC Public Schools, is now leading the Center for Rising Generations at the Aspen Institute, a new initiative funded by the Bezos Family Foundation.

Laura Keane, a postsecondary strategy consultant, is currently serving as a strategy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary, where she is working to improve the FAFSA process.

Katie Roy, who was previously senior advisor at Education Resource Strategies, is now partner and general counsel at the organization.

Rebecca Gifford Goldberg, former co-lead of Bellwether’s strategic advising practice, will become the organization’s new managing partner. Mary Wells, who previously held the managing partner role, will continue at Bellwether as a strategic advising partner.

Matthew Kraft, associate professor of education and economics at Brown University, was appointed to a one-year term as a senior economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Stephanie Loeck, who was previously at InnovateEDU, is joining GPS Education Partners as the new vice president of strategic development.

Edward Conroy, who was a senior policy advisor at New America, is now senior policy manager at the organization.

Julie Morita, who was most recently executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been appointed the Joyce Foundation‘s new president & CEO.

Stacy Loewe, who was previously at NORC at the University of Chicago, is now the director of research at the Learning Policy Institute.

Dr. Kimberlee Armstrong, who currently serves as the deputy superintendent of Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Washington, has been named the next superintendent of Portland Public Schools.

Jason Horne and Tiffany Taylor, current partners at GSV Ventures, have been named co-presidents of the ASU+GSV Summit.

Ryan Hall, who was a partner at Transcend Education, is now managing partner at the organization.

Shaun Dougherty, a professor of education & policy at Boston College Lynch School, is now working as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Education.

Sierra Stone, who was program lead at GSV Ventures, is now chief of staff to Deborah Quazzo, managing partner of GSV Ventures and co-founder of ASU+GSV Summit.

Dr. Thomas Taylor, who currently serves as the superintendent of Stafford County Public Schools, has been named the next superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools.

Ronald Reed, the founder of SXSW EDU, is stepping down from his role as executive producer. Greg Rosenbaum, previously the senior director of SXSW EDU, will be taking over.

Sarah Carr, an independent journalist and freelance editor, has started a new role as director of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship.

Gina Mahony, who is the president and founder of Domer Consulting, is joining Cogent Strategies as managing director.

Nicole Ridgway, who most recently served as managing editor of CNN Business, is the new editor in chief at The 74.

Christina Foti, the current chief of special education at the New York City Department of Education, is being promoted to lead the new Division of Inclusive and Accessible Learning that will support students with disabilities and children learning English as a second language.

Troy Smith, who was previously the vice president of Public Impact, is now the executive director of K-12 policy at The College Board.

Ajuah Helton, who previously worked at the KIPP Foundation as vice president of KIPP Forward, has joined Bellwether as a partner on the strategic advising team.

Shawn Datchuck, who is currently an associate professor at the University of Iowa College of Education, has been selected as the next director of the Iowa Reading Research Center.

Lauren Cortinas, who was most recently at the agency Chemistry Cultura, is the new senior vice president of communications at Helios Education Foundation.

Kristen McQuillan, former partner at TNTP, is now the chief program officer at StandardsWork.

Brad Bernatek, who was managing director of WGU Labs Accelerator, joins Education First Consulting as principal and senior director of growth and strategic engagement. Spencer Sherman, who founded Ascendways, also joins as principal consultant.

Mary Kingston Roche, previously at the Institute for Educational Leadership and the founder of Live Curious, is now a senior director at Penn Hill Group.

Madeline Will, a reporter for Education Week, has been promoted to assistant managing editor.

Callie Riley, who was previously at the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, is now managing director at Cambiar Education.

Danny Carlson, who was the chief of staff in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, has been promoted to deputy assistant secretary for policy and programs.

Rhonda Haniford, who was the associate commissioner of school quality and support at the Colorado Department of Education, is now the state’s deputy commissioner of student excellence.

Arthur McKee, who was a senior director at CityBridge Education, is now the director of programmatic benchmarking at the National Center on Education and the Economy.

David L. Marcus, who was the head of communications at Global Business Coalition for Education, is now the Chief Communications Officer at Minerva University.

Alia Wong, an education reporter at USA TODAY, will be joining the Associated Press as the collaborations editor on the national education team.

Halley Potter, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, has been named TCF’s director of K-12 education policy.

The University of California, Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy has named Professor Jesse Rothstein as the next director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education.

Rachel Evans, who was previously CEO of CityBridge Education, has joined Teach For America as the new chief revenue and development officer.

Dr. Celine Coggins, former chief executive of Grantmakers for Education, has been named the inaugural CEO of The Goodness Web.

Richard Laine joins the National Center on Education and the Economy as regional director in the Midwest.

Halley Potter, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is taking on an additional role as the director of PK-12 education policy at the organization.

Lexi Anderson, who was previously the director of development at Education Commission of the States, is now the associate vice president of philanthropy at InsideTrack.

Sasha Rabkin, who previously served as president of Equal Opportunity Schools, has joined the Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF) as chief of program strategy and innovation.

Kathleen Porter-Magee is leaving her role as superintendent of Partnership Schools to become managing partner of the Leadership Roundtable, a nonprofit that supports the U.S. Catholic Church in adopting operational best practices. She will begin her new role in August.

Weadé James, previously the vice president of organizational advancement at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, has joined the Center for American Progress as the senior director for K-12 education policy.

Starlee Coleman, who is currently CEO of the Texas Public Charter Schools Association, has been named the next president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Bruno Manno, who is at the Walton Family Foundation, is leaving to become senior advisor at the Progressive Policy Institute, where he will create the organization’s What Works Lab.

Chelsea Crawford, who was previously at the Tennessee Department of Education, is the new executive director of TennesseeCAN.

Gretchen Schoenhaar, who previously worked for Barclays, has been appointed chief executive officer of Step Up For Students. Doug Tuthill, who has been Step Up’s president since 2008, will become the organization’s chief vision officer.

Carey Wright, who is currently serving as interim superintendent of schools in Maryland, has been named permanent superintendent.

Andrea Wolfe, who was most recently the chief advancement officer at Mass Insight, has been named the organization’s next president and CEO.

Anthony Carnevale, founder and director of the Center on Education and the Workforce, is retiring after 17 years at the organization. Co-founder and Director of Research Dr. Jeff Strohl will succeed him.

Chastity Pratt, who was previously the education bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, is joining The Washington Post as a national education editor.

Eric Gordon, who serves as the senior vice president of student development and education pipeline at Cuyahoga Community College, has joined the board of directors for Education Resource Strategies.

Dr. Christina Grant, who was previously the state superintendent of education for the District of Columbia, has been named the new executive director for the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University.

Richard Kahlenberg has joined the Progressive Policy Institute as the director of housing policy and director of the American Identity Project.

Jennifer Kirmes, who was previously the executive director of teaching and learning at the Illinois State Board of Education, is now the director of policy at Advance Illinois.

Sunanna Chand, who was previously the vice president of systems reinvention at The Reinvention Lab at Teach for America, is now the organization’s executive director.

Marian Schutte, who was previously the executive director, division of authorizing at the Texas Education Agency, is now the agency’s deputy associate commissioner of authorizing and policy.

Emmeline Zhao is now the chief creative officer at The 74.

Scott Benson, who was previously at the University of North Carolina, is now at Cambiar Education.

Christine Pitts, who was previously at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, is now a senior fellow at Education Northwest.

Andy Smith, who was previously the director of policy and advocacy at TNTP, is now the senior director of policy and advocacy at Chiefs for Change.

Jorge Fanjul, who was previously the North American program director at the Centre for Public Impact, is the new executive director of Latinos for Education‘s Massachusetts region. Jacqueline Monterroso also joins the organization as the Massachusetts director of policy and advocacy.

Carmel Martin, who was previously the deputy assistant to the president and domestic policy advisor to the vice president, is now the special secretary for the Governor’s Office for Children in Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s cabinet.

Steven Hernández, who was previously the executive director of the Connecticut Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity, is the next executive director of ConnCAN.

Brooke Stafford-Brizard, who was previously the vice president for research to practice at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is the new vice president for innovation and impact at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dr. Brittany Corde, who was previously program manager at the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, is the new senior program officer at Ascendium Education Group.

Bill Horwath, who was a consultant at Education First, is now managing partner at the organization.

Dr. Deborah A. Gist, who was previously the superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools, is Transcend‘s new superintendent-in-residence.

Liana Loewus, who was previously the education managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, is the new managing editor of WETA’s Reading Universe.

Patrick Wall, former senior national reporter with Chalkbeat, is now education editor for a new statewide reporting team launched by The Advocate and NOLA News.

Lelaine Bigelow, who was previously vice president for social impact and congressional relations at the National Partnership for Women & Families, is the new executive director of Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality.

Nick Anderson, who was formerly a senior reporter covering higher education for The Washington Post, is joining the American Council on Education as vice president for higher education partnerships and improvement.

Nirvi Shah, who was the education enterprise editor of USA Today, is the new executive editor of The Hechinger Report.

Joseph Hettler, who was senior vice president of strategic growth and finance at TNTP, is now the chief partnership officer at K12 Coalition.

José Muñoz, who was previously senior director of the Coalition for Community Schools with the Institute for Educational Leadership, is the new president of Education Commission of the States.

Adam Kushner, who was previously the education editor at The Washington Post, is the new deputy for The New York Times‘ The Morning newsletter. Moriah Balingit also left the education team at The Post and joined the Associated Press as an early education reporter.

Jay Martinez, who was previously at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is now a program officer at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies.

Diego Arambula, who was managing partner at Transcend, is joining The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as vice president for educational transformation.

Michelle Mercado, who was senior vice president of consulting at TNTP, is now the chief program officer at Mass Insight Education & Research. Andrea Wolfe, who was the chief talent officer and chief of staff for Propel America, will also join the organization as chief advancement officer.

Monica Milligan has been promoted to executive director of Gradient Learning, the parent company behind Summit Learning and Along.

Laura Slover, founder and chief executive at CenterPoint Education Solutions, has stepped down to lead a new initiative of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Educational Testing Service. CenterPoint’s chief operating officer, Sue Krause, will take over.

Erica Meltzer, who was bureau chief of Chalkbeat Colorado, is now Chalkbeat’s new national editor.

Maria Voles Ferguson, who was previously the executive director of the Center on Education Policy at George Washington University, is joining Strada Education Foundation as their vice president for content.

Jhone Ebert, superintendent of public instruction in Nevada, has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to the National Assessment Governing Board.

Jim Roberts is stepping down as publisher of The 74. Steve Snyder, who is currently the organization’s editor-in-chief, will be taking on the role of CEO.

Charles L. Welch, who was president of Arkansas State University System, has been named the new president and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

Dr. Janice Hicks, who was vice president for institutional effectiveness at Odessa College, is the new deputy director of education grantmaking at Ascendium Education Philanthropy.

Jessica Cardichon, who was previously education policy director for U.S. Senate HELP Committee, is now special assistant to the President for education.

Robert Gordon, who was previously at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is now the deputy assistant to the President for economic mobility.

Sara Allan, who was a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be the next president of the Valhalla Foundation.

Naeha Dean, who was the executive director of the Camden Education Fund, is now a partner with City Fund. Maura Marino, who was CEO of Education Forward DC, is also joining City Fund as a partner.

Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat’s national reporter, will be joining the Wall Street Journal as K-12  education reporter.

Amanda Beaumont, who was director of federal relations at the University of Michigan, will be joining the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education subcommittee staff.

Carey Wright, previously state superintendent of education in Mississippi, has been named interim state superintendent of schools in Maryland.

Phyllis Jordan, who was FutureEd’s associate director, is now policy and communications director of EdFund, a new nonprofit dedicated to funding public schools equitably and adequately.

Michael Brickman has joined The Cicero Institute as senior fellow and education policy director.

Lisa McIntyre-Hite, previously vice president of learning innovation at Guild Education, is now executive vice president and chief operating officer of C-BEN Solutions. Grace Fowler, also previously at Guild, has joined the organization as senior director of client success.

Dr. Rita Raichoudhuri, previously superintendent of Kalamazoo Public Schools, is now chief program officer at One Million Degrees.

Dakarai Aarons has a new role as the director of employee philanthropy programs at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Indira Dammu is now associate partner at Bellwether.

Norma Ming, manager of research & evaluation at San Francisco Unified School District, will join the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as managing director of the Carnegie Evidence and Improvement Lab.

Jonathan Travers has assumed the presidency of Education Resource Strategies, and maintains his role as managing partner of their consulting practice. Greg Hills, former CEO at FSG, is chief operating officer and managing partner of core services. Betty Chang is managing partner of field building.

Steph Smith, formerly the editor-in-chief of Teach For America, is now the Education Writers Association‘s content director. Joining her as content manager is Naomi Harris, formerly a reporter at Open Campus.

Penny Schwinn, former Tennessee education commissioner, has joined the University of Florida as vice president for PK-12 and pre-bachelors programs.

Nicole Rodriguez Leach, former vice president of Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, is now executive director of Grantmakers for Education.

Robin V. Harris, currently vice president of strategic communications at The Education Trust, has been named The Wallace Foundation’s vice president, communications.

Sarah Jane Forman, who was general counsel for the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education, is now general counsel at KIPP DC.

Subira Gordon, executive director of ConnCAN, is leaving to become CEO of the Nashville Charter Collaborative. Hamish MacPhail will be taking on the role of interim executive director.

Nathan Jones, who was associate professor in Special Ed and Ed Policy at Boston University, was named the new commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER).

Matthew P. Steinberg, who was associate professor of education and public policy at George Mason University, will be the managing director of research and evaluation at Accelerate.

Jeremy Anderson, president of the Education Commission of the States, has been named chief executive officer of the National Math and Science Initiative.

Kirabo Jackson, a Northwestern University economics professor and FutureEd research advisor, has been named to the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Danika Rux, who was chief of school support for the New York City Department of Education, is now the department’s deputy chancellor of school leadership.

Robert Runcie, former superintendent of Broward County Public Schools in Florida, has been named chief executive officer of Chiefs for Change, a position he has held in an interim capacity since May 2022.

Jason Glass, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, is leaving the post to become an associate vice president of teaching and learning at Western Michigan University.

Deena Bishop, former superintendent of Anchorage Public Schools, has been named Alaska’s state education commissioner.

Lexi Barrett, a senior advisor to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and former associate vice president at Jobs for the Future, is now chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Education.

Tara García Mathewson, a reporter for the Hechinger Report, has joined The Markup to cover the intersection of higher education and technology.

Stacey Childress, who was CEO of the Advanced Education Research & Development Fund and the New Schools Venture Fund, is now a senior partner at McKenzie & Company.

Dana Grayson, a project director at WestEd, is now director of its teacher workforce content area.

Elda Garcia, who was executive director of the National Association of Testing Professionals, is now executive director of national partnerships for Imagine Learning.

Jacqueline Greer, who was chief program officer at Urban Teachers, is now vice president of programs and partnerships for Equal Opportunity Schools.

Caprice Young, who was president of the Education Growth Group consulting firm, is now superintendent and CEO of Navigator Schools, a network of charter schools in California.

Loretta Goodwin, chief operating officer of the Aurora Institute, has been named interim CEO of the organization, replacing Susan Patrick.

James Lane, who was leading the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, is now chief executive officer of PDK International.

Daniel Losen, who was director of The Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA, is now senior director of education for the National Center for Youth Law.

Brooke LePage, a former FutureEd policy analyst and recent graduate of Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, is now a policy analyst for Congress’s Joint Economic Committee.

Stephanie Cornell, managing director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, has been named executive director of the Walton Family Foundation.

Mildred García, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, has been named chancellor of the California State University system.

Shannon Williams, an executive vice president at The Mind Trust in Indianapolis, is chief operating officer, as well.

Emily Ann Gullickson, chief executive officer and founder of the A for Arizona advocacy group, has been named deputy secretary of education in Virginia.

Scott Jaschik, founder and editor of Inside Higher Ed, is retiring.

Mary Kingston Roche, senior director of  policy at the Institute for Education Leadership, is leaving to found Live Curious, helping people cultivate their curiosity.

Cara Stillings Candal, a managing director at ExcelinEd, has been promoted to vice president of policy.

Cecilia Rouse, a Princeton University professor and former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has been named president of The Brookings Institution.

Khalid N. Mumin, who was superintendent of schools at Lower Merion School District, has been confirmed as Pennsylvania’s secretary of education.

Kristy Brown, director of schools for Jackson County Schools in Tennessee, will join the Tennessee Department of Education as chief academic officer.

Manjula Karamcheti, senior associate researcher at The Center for Certification and Competency-based Education, is joining the Barr Foundation as a program officer on the education team.

Rashidah Lopez Morgan, former principal consulting at Education First Consulting, has been promoted to partner.

Shenkiat Lim, who was the director of people & culture at the Scratch Foundation, has been named the chief people & equity officer at Education First Consulting.

Cheri Fancsali, deputy director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, has been promoted to executive director or the alliance.

Susana Córdova, the former superintendent of Denver Public Schools, has become Colorado commissioner of education.

McKenzie Snow, Virginia’s deputy secretary of education, has been named director of the Iowa Department of Education.

Rodney D. Bennett, who was president of the University of Southern Mississippi, has been named chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Hunter Sunrise, who was chief marketing officer for Instapage, has joined SchoolStatus as chief marketing officer.

Julie Kornfeld, vice provost at Columbia University, has been named president of Kenyon College.

Rebecca Sibilia, founder of EdBuild and a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is leaving the foundation to launch a new organization called EdFund.

Jenny Gold, who was a reporter at Kaiser Health News, has joined the Los Angeles Times where she is covering early childhood development and education.

Augustus Mays, who was director of policy and outreach at WestEd, is now vice president for partnerships and engagement at The Education Trust.

Millard House II, former superintendent of Houston Independent School District, has been named CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland.

John Papay, an associate professor of education at Brown University who studies educational inequality, has been appointed director of Brown’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

Margaret Spellings, U.S. secretary of education under President George W. Bush, has been named chief executive officer of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Mike Miles, former superintendent for Dallas Independent School District and Colorado’s Harrison School District, has been appointed by the state to lead the Houston Independent School District.

Asher Lehrer-Small, an education reporter at The 74, is joining Houston Landing, a nonprofit news outlet in Houston.

Natalia Pane, who currently serves as the chief operations officer at Child Trends, has been named the organization’s next president.

Amy Kuether, who was previously a senior writer for Ascendium’s Strategic Communications team, has joined the organization’s Education Philanthropy team as a program officer for strategic engagement.

Ahnna Smith, who was executive director of the Workforce Investment Council of the District of Columbia, has joined the Education Strategy Group as a senior director.

Brian Louie, who was a senior manager at Guild Education, is now vice president for investor relations and strategy at the Charter School Growth Fund.

Warren Morgan, chief academic officer for Indianapolis Public Schools, has been named chief executive officer of the the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Jessica Rose, assistant superintendent of Lincoln Public Schools in Massachusetts, will join the Barr Foundation as education senior program officer.

Mark Vianello, chief Operations Officer for Florida’s Marion County Public Schools in, has been named superintendent of Charlotte County Public Schools in Florida.

Seth D. Harris, who served as acting secretary and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor in the Obama administration, has joined Whiteboard Advisors as a senior advisor.

Ben Vinson III, provost of Case Western Reserve University, has been named president of Howard University.

Penny Schwinn, Tennessee’s commissioner of education, is stepping down from the post in June. Gov. Bill Lee plans to nominate Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds, vice president of policy with nonprofit ExcelinEd, as the next state schools’ chief.

Jason Botel, a former acting U.S. assistant education secretary and vice president at Catapult Learning, is now vice president for national partnerships at the Age of Learning.

Daniel Velasco, an equity consultant and former president of Latinos for Education, has been named chief executive officer of Ensemble Learning. He replaces Elise Darwish, who founded the nonprofit, which supports multilingual learning

Alicia T. Johnson, president of KIPP NYC, has been named chief executive officer of the city’s charter network.

Cheryl Logan, superintendent of Omaha Public Schools and former chief academic chief officer in Philadelphia, has been named inaugural executive director of the new McGraw Center for Educational Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education

Hannah Smith, who was vice president of partnerships at ed-tech nonprofit Moneythink, joined Education Strategy Group as a director supporting the postsecondary transitions portfolio.

Cheryl Watson-Harris, who has served as superintendent of DeKalb County Schools and deputy chancellor of New York City Department of Education, has been named executive director of Achieve Atlanta.

Sinthia Sone-Moyano, an assistant superintendent in Connecticut’s Manchester Public Schools, has been named deputy commissioner for educational supports and wellness for the Connecticut State Department of Education.

Kathryn Bradley, an education fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, has been named partnerships manager at the Stuart Foundation.

Amanda Fuchs Miller, a long-time Capitol Hill aide, most recently for Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, is now deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs in the Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Education Department.

Katharine Strunk, an education policy and economics professor at Michigan State University and director of its Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dympna Ugwu-Oju, editor of the Fresnoland Lab at the Fresno Bee, is joining EdSource as the K-12 Editor.

Jorge Elorza, who was mayor of Providence, has been named chief executive officer or Democrats for Education Reform.

Nicole Siegel, director of advocacy for social policy, education & politics at Third Way, is joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to work on higher education issues.

Jermaine Myrie, chief external affairs officer at uAspire, has been named chief executive officer of the youth mentoring organization MENTOR.

Keith Witham, who was director of education grant making at Ascendium Education Group, has been promoted to vice president of education philanthropy.

Dacia Toll, chief executive officer of the online learning platform Stepmojo, is now co-CEO of Coursemojo, a merger of Coursello and Stepmojo

Nick Simmons, who was senior advisor to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, is now deputy chief of staff for Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont.

Lisa Coons, chief academic officer in the Tennessee Department of Education, has been named Virginia’s superintendent of public instruction. Jeremy Riley, superintendent of Goochland County Public Schools, will serve as the state education department’s chief of staff.

Erica L. Green, an education reporter at The New York Times for the past six years, is leaving the beat for other projects. The Times education team now includes Sarah Mervosh and Troy Clossen.

David P. Cleary, who was Republican staff director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has joined DLA Piper’s public affairs practice as a senior policy advisor.

Kathy Chow, director of  communications and development for CivicWell and a former executive director of the Asian American Journalists Association, has been named executive director of Education Writers Association.

Gabriella Gómez, deputy director of U.S. policy and finance for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is joining Strada Education Network as executive vice president of policy, advocacy, and communications.

Chad Aldis, vice president for Ohio policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, has been named director of the Iowa Department of Education.

Garry W. Jenkins, currently dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, has been named president of Bates College.

Monica R. Martinez, who was director of strategic initiatives at the Learning Policy Institute, has joined the Walter and Evelyn Haas, Jr. Foundation as director of the college success program.

Shin Inouye, who was executive vice president of Communications at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, is now a deputy assistant secretary for communications at the U.S. Department of Education.

Jennifer Engle, who was director of U.S. program data at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is now a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Education.

Arsenio Romero, superintendent of Los Lunas Schools in New Mexico, has been named  secretary of the New Mexico Public Education Department.

Mark Teoh, who was vice president of learning, research, and impact at Teach Plus, has joined the Raikes Foundation as an education program officer.

Elizabeth G. Schneider, chief officer for strategic initiatives for the NEA Foundation and former senior vice president for the Alliance for Excellent Education, will serve as deputy executive director for the National Assessment Governing Board.

Stephen Kostyo, a senior policy advisor at the Learning Policy Institute, has joined the U.S. Education Department as a Full-Service Community Schools and Promise Neighborhood Impact Fellow through the Federation of American Scientists.

Clarence Wardell III, who was the chief data and equity officer for the White House’s ARP implementation team, has joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a senior program officer for economic mobility and opportunity.

Matt Frendewey, vice president of strategy and executive engagement at ExcelinEd, is joining yes. every kid. foundation as vice president of strategy.

Tony Sanders, superintendent of the U-46 school district in Elgin, Illinois, has been named Illinois’ next state superintendent of education.

Richard Corcoran, a former Florida education commissioner, will become interim president of New College in Sarasota, Florida, in March after trustees fired current president Patricia Okker.

Jonathan P. Moore, who was deputy superintendent for student achievement at the Nevada Department of Education, has been named chief strategy officer for the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Jessica Cardichon, deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, will become education policy director for new Senate HELP Committee chair Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.)

John L. Jackson, Jr.,  dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, has been named provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

Hans Goff, formerly of Amazon and the office of the assistant speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives, is now the vice president of advocacy and government affairs at Democrats for Education Reform and its affiliate organization Education Reform Now.

Jordan Wicker, who was executive director of the Invest in Student Advancement Alliance, has been named vice president of government relations at Career Education Colleges and Universities.

Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, president of the London School of Economics, has been named as the next president of Columbia University.

Eric Waldo, former executive director of Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Initiative, has been named president and CEO of the District of Columbia College Access Program, the city’s largest scholarship program.

Laura Hamilton, who was an associate vice president at ETS, has moved to the American Institutes for Research to become senior director of education measurement and assessment.

Frances Messano, president of the New Schools Venture Fund, has become CEO of the philanthropy

Sadie Stockdale Jefferson, who was executive director for the Children First Fund and a former deputy chief of staff in Chicago Public Schools, has been named executive director of the University of Chicago Education Lab.

Ellen Granberg, provost of the Rochester Institute of Technology, has been named president of George Washington University, the first woman to hold the post.

Ramin Taheri, who was chief of staff for the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, is now CEO for Magnet Schools of America.

Lindsay Fryer, who was a senior vice president at the Penn-Hill Group, is now president and founding principal of Lodestone DC, a government relations, lobbying, and consulting firm.

Regan Kelly, who was a managing partner at TNTP, has joined Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies as director of education grant making.

Jill Hawley, who was a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is now vice president of philanthropy for Gary Community Ventures.

Jessica Johnson, who was senior vice president for policy, practice, and systems change at the American Institutes for Research, is joining Education Northwest as chief program and development officer.

Joe Graves, superintendent of the Mitchell School District in South Dakota, has been named the state’s next education secretary.  He replaces Tiffany Sanderson, who has taken a job as president of Lake Area Technical College.

Sarah Mehrotra, who was a senior data and policy analyst at Education Trust, is a now a special assistant in the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Amanda Beaumont, who was deputy education policy director on the Senate HELP Committee, is now director of federal relations at the University of Michigan, leading up their education policy work.

Jacob Oliva, senior chancellor at Florida’s Department of Education, has become Arkansas’s secretary of education.

Umut Ozek, principal economist at CALDER/AIR, is moving to the RAND Corporation as a senior economist.

Ben Sasse, a Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, has resigned from the Senate to become president of the University of Florida.

John B. King, president of Education Trust and former U.S. secretary of education, has been named chancellor of The State University of New York system.

Zahava Stadler, special assistant for state funding and policy at Education Trust, is joining New America as project director for a new Education Funding Equity Initiative.

Tomás Hanna, chief talent officer for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, will become associate superintendent for secondary schools for the Philadelphia School District.

Evelyn Nuñez, chief of schools the Philadelphia School District, will become associate superintendent of elementary schools for the district.

Mike Herbstmann, chief financial officer of the Prince George’s County School District in Maryland, will become chief financial officer for the Philadelphia School District.

Patrick Tutwiler, the former Lynn Public Schools superintendent and headmaster at Boston Public Schools who now serves as the senior program officer at the Boston-based Barr Foundation, has been named Massachusetts’ next secretary of education.

Wesley Whistle, policy director for New America’s higher education program, is joining the U.S. Education Department to work on higher education issues.

Claudine Gay, dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will become Harvard University’s 30th president on July 1.

Adam Phyall, director of technology and media services for Newton County School System in Covington, Georgia, has been named director of professional learning and leadership at All4Ed.

Enrique A. Chaurand, who has led communications and marketing teams at UnidosUS and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, will become vice president of communications and marketing at All4Ed.

Greg Toppo, a former lead education writer at USA Today and past president of the Education Writers Association, has joined the staff of The 74.

David R. Schuler, superintendent of High School District 214 in Arlington Heights, Ill., and the 2018 National Superintendent of the Year, has been named executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association. He will replace Daniel A. Domenech, who is retiring in February.

Natasha Ushomirsky, state director for Massachusetts at Education Trust, is joining the Barr Foundation’s education team as senior program officer.

Katie Zaback, an education consultant who served in the Colorado Department of Higher Education, is joining Colorado Succeeds as vice president of governmental affairs.

Jessie Mandle, who was deputy director of Voices for Utah Children, is now national program director for the Healthy Schools Campaign.

Dana Goldstein, a long-time education reporter at The New York Times, is moving off the beat to cover family policy, demographics and sociology. Vimal Patel is shifting from the Times’ Express desk to cover free speech in education. Jacey Fortin and Sarah Mervosh joined the education desk earlier in fall 2o22.

Jenny Curtin, who was a senior program officer at the Barr Foundation, has been appointed as the foundation’s director of education.

Jack Stripling, a leadership and accountability reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education, is joining The Washington Post’s education team as an investigative reporter focused on universities and colleges.

Denise Forte, who was serving as interim CEO of Education Trust, has been named to the position permanently.

Casey Haugner Wrenn, who was executive director of student readiness and early postsecondary at the Tennessee Department of Education, is now director of career readiness at Education Strategy Group.

Brian Prescott, vice president of  the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), has been named president of the organization. He replaces Sally Johnstone, who is retiring.

Scott Montgomery, who spent years in senior positions at ACT before leaving to run a Christian school in Iowa, is returning to ACT as vice president of strategic initiatives.

Nicholas Munyan-Penney, who was a senior policy analyst at Education Reform Now, is joining Education Trust as assistant director of P12 policy.

Kortne Edogun-Ticey, an education consultant and former administrator in Washington, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent, is now a senior advisor in the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Tim Farrell, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Military Child Education Coalition, has been named CEO of United Through Reading, a program that supports read-aloud programs for military families.

Chelsea Montgomery, executive director of the Office of Student Supports in Georgia’s Fulton County Schools, has been named assistant superintendent of student services for Atlanta Public Schools.

Jessica Sutter, an education consultant and president of the D.C. State Board of Education in joining the team at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars as the portfolio partner for youth civic development.

Bernadine Futrell, who was director for the Office of Head Start at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has moved to the Education Department as deputy assistant secretary of education for equity and discretionary grants and support services.

Marlon Marshall, a partner at the City Fund and former Obama administration official, has been named CEO of the City Fund. He replaces Neerav Kingsland, who is joining City Fund’s board.

Blanchi Roblero, who was chief of staff of the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education, is now deputy assistant secretary for that office.