Liz Cohen is FutureEd’s policy director. She has worked as an analyst and advisor for foundations, districts, and nonprofit organizations in the K-12 education space for nearly two decades, first at the District of Columbia Public Schools’ Office of Data and Accountability and then at the Office of the State Superintendent in the District of Columbia. She has also worked at the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, 50CAN, the Urban Institute, and Whiteboard Advisors and was a strategic data fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research. Cohen graduated from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude and holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

Work by Liz Cohen

Early Returns: First Results from the New Wave of Public Funding of Private Schooling

Table of Contents Introduction Which Children Do These Programs Serve? How Do Universal Programs Impact State and Local Budgets? How is the Money Spent?

Rhode Island’s Statewide Push to Cut Chronic Absenteeism

As the nation’s educators ready themselves for the start of a new school year, they’re no doubt wondering how many students are going to show up after several…

Team Sport: Rhode Island’s Statewide Strategy for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism

Report on Rhode Island’s successful strategy for addressing chronic absenteeism

Could Tutoring Be the Next Big Bipartisan School Reform?

This piece originally appeared in Washington Monthly. For most people, the lesson of pandemic schooling was that remote learning was an unmitigated disaster for…

Testimony: Strategies for Solving Chronic Absenteeism in the District of Columbia

FutureEd Policy Director Liz Cohen delivered testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee of the Whole, on May 13, 2024.

Tapping College Students to Sustain High-Quality Tutoring Post Pandemic

This piece originally appeared in The Hechinger Report. Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and…

Six Keys to Scaling High-Quality Tutoring

Jackson Elementary School in Louisiana’s East Feliciana Parish District sits on a quiet street just outside the town of Jackson, population 4,130. It’s a 30…

Outcomes-based Tutoring Contracts Get Results, Save Money

This piece originally appeared in The 74 Anyone who sells products to public schools can tell you education is a huge market. Schools spend billions of dollars…