Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Marc Sternberg is director of the foundation’s Systemic K-12 Education Reform Focus Area.

He leads the foundation’s initiatives to improve K-12 education for all of our nation’s children by empowering parents with quality options.

Before joining the foundation, Marc served as the senior deputy chancellor at the New York City Department of Education, where he directed the citywide portfolio planning efforts including new school development and placement, the school phase-out process, and the enrollment process for students Pre-K-12.

He also served as senior advisor to the chancellor and the mayor’s office on K-12 policy and strategy.

Prior to his service as deputy chancellor, Marc served as founder and principal of the Bronx Lab School, an unscreened high school that quadrupled the graduation rate of Evander Childs High School, the school Bronx Lab replaced in 2004.

After earning a B.A. from Princeton University in 1995, Marc served as a Teach For America corps member in the South Bronx. He then earned a joint MBA and Masters in Education from Harvard University.

Marc was selected as a 2009-2010 White House Fellow, during which time he worked in the office of U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan supporting the Race to the Top initiative.