Chris Cerf

Mr. Cerf served as Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, Superintendent of the Newark, New Jersey public schools and New Jersey’s Commissioner ofEducation.  Co-founder of the NationalSummer School Initiative, he continues to serve as board chair.  Other non-profit boards include Excellence inEducation, NJCan, and the Uplands Center Foundation.

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In the private sector, Mr. Cerf sits on several boards and previously served as President and COO of Edison Schools,Inc and CEO of Amplify Insight. He earlier served as Associate Counsel toPresident Clinton and as a partner in two Washington, D.C., law firms. A graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, Mr. Cerf also was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.  Prior to attending law school, he spent four years as a high school history teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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