Bellwether Education Partners and the Collaborative for Student Success went to great lengths to convene a group of 45 peer reviewers to review the 34 state plans submitted in September and October of 2017.
Our Peer Reviewers
Hear from the Peers
Former state education chiefs share why these reviews are so valuable to current chiefs and other state policymakers:
State advocates who participated in this peer review share why and how state advocates should use the feedback on their state’s plan to affect change.
Meet the Peers
John Bailey
Tony Bennett
Education Reform Strategies, LLC
Lauren J. Bierbaum
CREDO
Alice Johnson Cain
Teach Plus
Whitney Chapa
Arizona Chamber of Commerce
Dale Chu
Independent Consultant
Aaron Churchill
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute – Ohio
Soncia Coleman
United Way Worldwide
Kathy Cox
Former CEO, U.S. Education Delivery Institute
Lucille Davy
Education Policy Consultant
David Dunn
Consultant, Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Education under George W. Bush
Dale Erquiaga (with Tiffany Miller)
Communities in Schools
Ginny Gentles
Senior Advisor for education reform policy & advocacy organizations
Aimee Guidera (with Paige Kowalski)
Data Quality Campaign
Terry Holliday
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Donna Johnson
Delaware State Board of Education
Lindsay Jones (with Melissa Turner)
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Lisa Graham Keegan
Keegan Company
Liz King (with Gisela Ariza)
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Sandy Kress
Akin-Gump LLC
Phillip Lovell (with Lindsay Dworkin)
Alliance for Excellent Education
Natasha Ushomirsky
The Education Trust
Tom Luna
Project Lead the Way
Erika McConduit
Urban League of Louisiana
Doug Mesecar
Lexington Institute
Rashidah Morgan
Education First
Gavin Payne
GPC Advisors, LLC
Shanna Peeples
2015 National Teacher of the Year
Gini Pupo-Walker
Conexión Americas
Diane Stark Rentner
Center on Education Policy
Ryan Reyna
Education Strategy Group
Gerard Robinson
The Center for Advancing Opportunity
Scott Sargrad
Center for American Progress
Javaid E. Siddiqi
The Hunt Institute
Hal Smith
National Urban League
Loren Trull
UnidosUS
Leslie Villegas
Migration Policy Institute
Claire Voorhees
Foundation for Excellence in Education
Joanne Weiss
Weiss Associates LLC
Anne Wicks
George W. Bush Institute
Conor Williams
New America Foundation
Christy Wolfe
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Jamie Woodson (with David Mansouri)
Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE)
Michael Yudin
The Raben Group
