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Steph Smith, who was the editor-in-chief of Teach For America, will be the Education Writers Association‘s content director. Naomi Harris, who was a reporter at Open Campus, will be content manager.

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, has been named 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 (OSSE), 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.