Signatories

EEP signatories are a diverse group of elected officials, civil rights leaders, educators, celebrities, reformers, and business leaders who proudly lend their name to our mission and publicly endorse our statement of principles.

Dr. Arlene Ackerman, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent

Jeanne Allen, The Center for Education Reform President

Andrés A. Alonso, Baltimore City Public Schools CEO

Yolie Flores Aguilar, LAUSD Board of Education Vice President

Ben Austin, Parent Revolution, Executive Director

Tiki Barber, Tiki Ventures LLC, Chairman 

Steve Barr, Green Dot Public Schools, Founder and Chairman 

Michael Bennet, U.S. Senate, Colorado and former Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools

Reverend A.R. Bernard, Christian Cultural Center Senior Pastor

Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City Mayor

Tom Boasberg, Denver Public Schools Superintendent 

Cory A. Booker, Newark, NJ Mayor

Reverend David Brawley, St. Paul Community Baptist Church Associate Pastor

David L. Brewer III, Former Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent

Eli Broad, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Founder

Richard Buery Jr., Children's Aid Society, President and CEO

Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida

Kaleem Caire, Next Generation Education Foundation President and CEO  

Sarah Calderon, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education Executive Director

Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone President and CEO

Marlene Canter, former LAUSD School Board member

Victor Capellan, Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR) President

Thomas W. Carroll, Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability President

Meria Carstarphen Ed.D., St. Paul Public Schools Superintendent

Michael Casserly, Council of the Great City Schools Executive Director

Christopher D. Cerf, former New York City Schools Deputy Chancellor

Kevin P. Chavous, attorney, author, and national school reform leader

Stacey Childress, Harvard Business School lecturer

Henry Cisneros, Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Former Mayor of San Antonio

Jeffrey Cohen, Educate, Inc., CEO   

Jordan Coleman, Youth Filmmaker, Actor, Student 

Anthony J. Colón, The Avanti Strategy Group Managing Partner

Bob Compton, Two Million Minutes Executive Producer 

John Conyers Jr., U.S. House of Representatives Michigan Fourteenth Congressional District

Ramon Cortines, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent and former New York City Schools Chancellor

Michael M. Crow, Arizona State University President

Richard M. Daley, Chicago Mayor

Timothy Daly, The New Teacher Project President

Marc Ecko, Marc Ecko Enterprises Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Jonah Edelman, Stand for Children, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Chaka Fattah, U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania 2nd Congressional District

Mike Feinberg, Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) Co-Founder

Adrian M. Fenty, Washington, DC Mayor

Terry Fields, Florida State Representative (D-Jacksonville)

Harold E. Ford, Jr., Democratic Leadership Council Chairman

Howard Fuller, Former Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent, Education Professor and Director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University  

Hector Gesualdo, Aspira New York, Executive Director 

Newt Gingrich, American Solutions for Winning the Future General Chairman

Deborah A. Gist, Rhode Island Education Commissioner 

Terry Grier Ed.D., Houston Independent School District Superintendent

Peter Groff, US DOE Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Director

Dr. Beverly L. Hall, Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent

Phil Handy, Florida Board of Education, Former Chair

Eric Hanushek, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Senior Fellow 

David Harris, The Mind Trust President and CEO

Kati Haycock,  The Education Trust President

Kristy Hebert,  Advance Innovative Education CEO

John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor

Jim Hunt, Former Governor of North Carolina

Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute President and CEO

Bill Jackson, GreatSchools President

Kevin Johnson, Sacramento Mayor and St. HOPE Public Schools Founder

Alex Johnston, ConnCAN Chief Executive Officer

Jason Kamras, 2005 National Teacher of the Year & D.C. Public Schools Director of Human Capital Strategy

John Katzman, The Princeton Review and 2tor, Inc Founder 

Lisa Graham Keegan, former Arizona State Superintendent of Schools

Caroline Kim Oh, iMentor President

Joel I. Klein, New York City Schools Chancellor, Education Equality Project Co-Founder

Matthew Klein, Blue Ridge Foundation New York Executive Director

Suzanne T. Kubach PhD, Policy Innovators in Education Network Executive Director

Marc Lampkin, Strong American Schools - ED in '08 Executive Director

Ernest A. Logan, Council of Schools Supervisors & Administrators President

Michael L. Lomax, UNCF -- United Negro College Fund President and CEO

Carlos Louimet, New America Alliance Chair

Michael Magee, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies

Dannel Malloy, Stamford, CT Mayor

John McCain, Arizona Senator

Daniel J. McKee, Cumberland, RI Mayor & Chief Executive Officer of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies

Katie Meadowcroft, 2009 Miss Maryland International  

Rev. James Meeks, Illinois State Senator & Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Chairman

Matt Miller, Author, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas 

Bill E. Milliken, Communities in Schools, Founder and Vice Chairman

Alisha Thomas Morgan, Georgia General Assembly -- State Representative

Scott Morgan, Education Pioneers, Founder and CEO

Eva Moskowitz, Success Charter Network Founder and CEO

James Mtume, KISS FM Radio "Open Line" Host

Janet Murguía,  National Council of La Raza (NCLR) President and CEO

Monique Nadeau, Hope Street Group Executive Director

Michael Nutter, Philadelphia Mayor

Brian G. Osborne, School District of South Orange & Maplewood Superintendent

Paul G. Pastorek, Louisiana State Department of Education Superintendent

Theresa Pena, Denver Board of Education President

Bart Peterson, Former Mayor of Indianapolis

Earl Phalen,  Summer Advantage USA Chief Executive Officer 

Dianne Piché,  U.S. Department of Education Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Civil Rights

Jared Polis,  U.S. House of Representatives Colorado Second Congressional District, and former Chairman of the Colorado State Board of Education 

Charles B. Reed, The California State University Chancellor

Michelle Rhee, Washington, D.C. Schools Chancellor

Greg Richmond, National Association of Charter School Authorizers President & CEO

Gerard Robinson, Virginia Secretary of Education 

The Honorable Roy Romer, The College Board Senior Advisor to the President 

Amy Rosen, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship President and CEO 

Andrew Rotherham, Education Sector Co-founder and Co-director

Hank Rubin, Institute for Collaborative Leadership President and Founder

Arthur Rothkopf, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Senior Vice President

Abe Saavedra, Houston Public Schools Superintendent

Dave Saba, American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence President

Gwendolyn Samuel, State of Black CT Alliance Co-Founder and Chairwoman

Lucinda Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology CEO and Co-Founder

Jon Schnur, New Leaders for New Schools CEO and Co-Founder

J.B. Schramm, College Summit CEO and Founder

Eric Schwarz, Citizen Schools CEO and Co-Founder

Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network President, Education Equality Project Co-Founder

Colin Smith, Change for Kids Executive Director & CEO

Eric Smith, Florida Department of Education Commissioner; Former Superintendent, Charlotte Mecklenburg, NC

Nelson Smith, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools President

Dr. Shirley Smith, Scholastic, Inc., Educational Consultant and Advocate for Children and Families

Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education

Dr. Joshua P. Starr, Stamford Public Schools Superintendent

Cate Swinburn, DC Public Education Fund President

Bill Taylor, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights Chair and civil rights lawyer

Whitney Tilson, Democrat for Education Reform Co-Founder

Paul Vallas, New Orleans Recovery School District Superintendent 

Tom Vander Ark, Revolution Learning Managing Partner and Vander Ark/Ratcliff Partner

Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Los Angeles Mayor

Kate Walsh, National Council on Teacher Quality President

J.C. Watts, Jr., Strong American Schools - ED in '08 National Spokesman

Chad Wick, KnowledgeWorks Foundation President and CEO 

Amy Wilkins, Education Trust Vice President for Government Affairs and Communication 

Roger Wilkins, Civil rights leader, professor of history, and journalist

Joe Williams, Democrats for Education Reform Executive Director

Steven Wolfe Pereira, MediaVest Multicultural Senior Vice President and Managing Director

Raul Yzaguirre,  Arizona State University, Executive Director of the Center for Community Development and Civil Rights