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.

Arlene Ackerman, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent

Jeanne Allen, The Center for Education Reform President

Andrés A. Alonso, Baltimore City Public Schools CEO

Seth Andrews, Democracy Prep Public Schools Founder & Superintendent

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. Senator (D-CO) and former Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools

Richard Berlin, Harlem RBI Executive Director and Chairman of DREAM Charter School

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 Mayor

Derrell Bradford, E3 Executive Director

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

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

Jean-Claude Brizard, Rochester City 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, Urban League of Greater Madison 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 Los Angeles Unified School District School Board member

Victor Capellan, Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR) President

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

Meria Carstarphen, Austin Independent School District Superintendent

Michael Casserly, Council of the Great City Schools Executive Director

Julián Castro, San Antonio Mayor

Christopher D. Cerf, Sangari Global Education President and CEO

Kevin P. Chavous, Black Alliance for Educational Options Chairman

Iris Chen, "I Have a Dream" Foundation President and CEO

Stacey Childress, Gates Foundation Deputy Director of Education

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 (D-MI)

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 CEO

Chaka Fattah, U.S. House of Representatives (D-PA)

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

Adrian M. Fenty, Washington, D.C. Mayor

Terry Fields, State Representative (D-FL)

Chester Finn, Thomas B. Fordham Institute President and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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

Yolie Flores, Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Vice President

Howard Fuller, Former Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent, Distinguished Professor of Education 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, Houston Independent School District Superintendent

Peter Groff, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools President & CEO 

Dr. Beverly L. Hall, Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent

Phil Handy, President & CEO, Strategic Industries

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

Craig M. Johnson, State Senator (D-NY)

Kevin Johnson, Sacramento Mayor

Alex Johnston, Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN)  CEO

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, Founder, Education Breakthrough Network

Caroline Kim Oh, iMentor President

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

Matthew Klein, Blue Ridge Foundation New York Executive Director

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

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

John Legend, Entertainer & Education Activist

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

Michael L. Lomax, UNCF -- United Negro College Fund President and CEO, Education Equality Project Co-Chair

Carlos Louimet, New America Alliance Chair of the Board of Directors

Marc Porter Magee, 50CAN President

Michael Magee, Rhode Island Mayoral Academies Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Dannel Malloy, Stamford, CT Mayor

John McCain, U.S. Senator (R-AZ)

Mike McGalliard, MLA Partner Schools President and CEO

Daniel J. McKee, Cumberland, RI Mayor & Board Chair of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies

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

Ted Mitchell, NewSchools Venture Fund CEO

Sydney Morris, Educators 4 Excellence Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

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, Education Equality Project Co-Chair

Monique Nadeau, Hope Street Group Executive Director

Michael Nutter, Philadelphia Mayor

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

Rod Paige, Former U.S. Secretary of Education (2001-2005)

Paul G. Pastorek, Louisiana State Department of Education Superintendent

Theresa Pena, Denver Board of Education President

Bart Peterson, Former Mayor of Indianapolis

Earl Phalen,  Reach Out and Read CEO and Summer Advantage USA Founder

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 

Roy Romer, The College Board Senior Advisor to the President 

Amy Rosen, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship President and CEO 

Andrew Rotherham, Bellwether Education Partners Founding Partner

Hank Rubin, Institute for Collaborative Leadership President and Founder

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

Edward Rust, State Farm Insurance Companies Chairman and CEO

Abe Saavedra, Houston Public Schools Superintendent

Dave Saba, American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence President

Madeleine Sackler, Filmmaker, The Lottery

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

Van Schoales, Education Reform Now Executive Director

J.B. Schramm, College Summit CEO and Founder

Eric Schwarz, Citizen Schools CEO and Co-Founder

Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network President

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 Sr. Advisor

Shirley Smith, Hunter College Associate Professor

Margaret Spellings, Margaret Spellings and Company President & CEO; Former US Secretary of Education

Joshua P. Starr, Stamford Public Schools Superintendent

Evan Stone, Educators 4 Excellence Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

Cate Swinburn, DC Public Education Fund President

Whitney Tilson, Democrats for Education Reform Co-Founder

Dacia Toll, Achievement First Co-CEO and President

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

Martin R. West, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Assistant Professor

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,  Nominee for Ambassadorship to the Dominican Republic