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Susan K. Burr
serves as Executive Director for the California County Superintendents
Educational Services Association (CCSESA). County Superintendents are
responsible for providing financial accountability and academic support
to every California school district. She also served as the Deputy
Executive Director for the County Superintendents organization where
she was responsible for advocacy efforts on state and federal
legislation and budget matters on behalf of all 58 county
superintendents in the state.
Andrew Calkins
is Senior Vice President of the Mass Insight Education & Research
Institute, Inc., a Boston-based, independent, non-profit group focused
on using higher standards reform to improve student achievement in
Massachusetts and across the nation. He co-authored The Turnaround
Challenge: Why America’s Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve
Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst-Performing Schools (2007), Mass Insight's pioneering national study of school turnaround.
Davis Campbell, who
retired as Executive Director of the California School Boards
Association in 2001, is very active in public education at the state
and local level. He currently serves as a senior advisor and faculty
for the California School Boards Association, Governance Institute, he
is a Senior Fellow in the University of California School of Education,
and maintains an active consulting practice in effective governance. He
serves on a number of state level boards in public education including
the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning (founding
Chairperson), EdSource (President, 2007-2009), The California Institute
for School Improvement, and the Cities, Counties, Schools Partnership
(founding board member). In Yolo County he also serves as a
Commissioner for the Yolo County Aging and Adult Services Commission
and is a member of the Board of Advisors for the UCD School of
Education.
Kevin Gordon
serves as the President of School Innovations and Advocacy which
represents local school agencies on school finance and policy issues
and provides an array of products and services to support public school
administration. Before joining SI&A, Gordon was the Executive
Director of the California Association of School Business Officials. He
also served for 12 years as the chief lobbyist and assistant executive
director for the California School Boards Association. He also served
as staff director to former Congressman Robert T. Matsui (D-Sacramento)
and as a legislative advocate for the Building Industry Association.
Elizabeth Hill
began a career in state government in 1976, joining California's
Legislative Analyst's Office as a program analyst focusing on criminal
justice. Following specializations in other policy areas, she was
appointed California Legislative Analyst by the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee in 1986. As Legislative Analyst, she serves as a
nonpartisan fiscal advisor to both houses of the California Legislature
and oversees the preparation of annual fiscal and policy analyses of
the State of California's $126 billion budget and its various programs.
Her office has the responsibility of preparing impartial analyses for
all initiatives and constitutional measures qualifying for the state's
ballot.
Mike Kirst
is Emeritus Professor of Education and Business Administration, by
courtesy, at Stanford University. As a policy generalist, Kirst has
published articles on school finance politics, curriculum politics,
intergovernmental relations, and education reform policies. He is the
author of 10 books, including From High School to College (2004), and The Political Dynamics of American Education
(2005). Kirst was a member of the California State Board of Education
from 1975 to 1982 and its president from 1977 to 1981. He was cofounder
of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) in 1983, and is a
member of the management and research staff of the Consortium for
Policy Research in Education. Before joining the Stanford faculty,
Kirst held several positions with the federal government, including
staff director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Manpower and Poverty.
Goodwin Liu
is a law professor at Boalt Hall specializing in constitutional law,
education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. He is also
Co-Director (with Christopher Edley, Jr.) of the Chief Justice Earl
Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, a multidisciplinary
research center at UC Berkeley devoted to civil rights issues in
California and the nation. Before joining the Boalt faculty in 2003,
Professor Liu was an appellate litigator at O'Melveny & Myers in
Washington, D.C., and clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the
U.S. Supreme Court. He served as special assistant to the Deputy
Secretary of Education during the Clinton Administration. A Stanford
alumnus, Rhodes Scholar, and graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Liu
serves on the board of directors of the ACLU of Northern California,
the American Constitution Society in Washington, D.C., and Chinese for
Affirmative Action in San Francisco.
John Mockler
is president of John B. Mockler and Associates, a consulting firm
specializing in education policy and finance. He is the former
executive director of the California State Board of Education in the
Davis Administration and served in an interim capacity as California's
secretary of education. For more than three decades, Mockler has worked
in both the public and private sectors, focusing on issues regarding
adequate education funding and educational achievement. He was a chief
architect of Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for
K–12 schools and community colleges, as well as many of the other laws
governing California's structure for financing schools. Mockler has
been a member of the EdSource Board of Directors since 1996.
Joel Montero
has 30 years of service in public sector institutions in a variety of
roles. He holds a master’s degree in educational administration and a
Bachelor of Science Degree in design engineering. In addition, he has
obtained life credentials in administrative services and secondary
education. His past experience includes Superintendent of a
medium-sized unified school district, assistant superintendencies in
business, personnel and curriculum and instruction, principal,
assistant principal, and classroom teacher.
Gavin Payne has served as Chief Deputy to California's State Superintendent Jack O'Connell since 2003, managing all activities of the
state Department of Education. He guides partnerships with a diverse
array of stakeholders and philanthropy groups, and oversees
relationships between his Department and the state's school districts
and counties, as well as with the federal government. Payne represents the Superintendent on the Boards of Directors of the
California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) and WestEd. He
also serves on the Board of the Council of Chief State Schools Officers'
(CCSSO) Deputies Leadership Commission and the CCSSO/Smithsonian
Institution Steering Committee.
Jay Pfeiffer
co-chairs the National Education Longitudinal Data Committee of the
Council of Chief State School Officers and is a member of the
Independent Advisory Panel for the National Assessment of Career and
Technical Education. He has been Deputy Commissioner for
Accountability, Research and Measurement since January 2007. This
Division includes the Department of Education's primary student and
staff databases, the Education Data Warehouse, the state's Assessment
program offices, and offices responsible for state and federal K-12
accountability.
Richard Simpson
is Deputy Chief of Staff for the Speaker of the California State
Assembly, Fabian Núñez. He is responsible for advising the Speaker and
other members of the Assembly on a wide variety of policy and budget
issues. He has served as a senior adviser for five other Assembly
Speakers, spent two years as Chief of Staff for the Senate Education
Committee, six years as Chief Consultant for the Assembly Education
Committee, and, for a short time, as a lobbyist for the California
Teachers Association. He has either written or played a key role in
developing California's major education reforms of the past decade.
Simpson served for 12 years as trustee and president of the Sacramento
County Board of Education.
Dr. Randolph E. Ward
became San Diego County Superintendent of Schools in June, 2006. He was
previously the state-appointed administrator of the Oakland Unified
School District, where, student test scores in Oakland increased
significantly, drop-out rates declined, and he was credited with
closing a multi-million dollar budget shortfall. He also served as the
state-appointed administrator in the Compton Unified School District,
where he was credited with restoring fiscal and academic solvency, and
Compton student test scores increased five consecutive years.
Susan K. Burr
serves as Executive Director for the California County Superintendents
Educational Services Association (CCSESA). County Superintendents are
responsible for providing financial accountability and academic support
to every California school district. She also served as the Deputy
Executive Director for the County Superintendents organization where
she was responsible for advocacy efforts on state and federal
legislation and budget matters on behalf of all 58 county
superintendents in the state.
Andrew Calkins
is Senior Vice President of the Mass Insight Education & Research
Institute, Inc., a Boston-based, independent, non-profit group focused
on using higher standards reform to improve student achievement in
Massachusetts and across the nation. He co-authored The Turnaround
Challenge: Why America’s Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve
Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst-Performing Schools (2007), Mass Insight's pioneering national study of school turnaround. 
Davis Campbell, who
retired as Executive Director of the California School Boards
Association in 2001, is very active in public education at the state
and local level. He currently serves as a senior advisor and faculty
for the California School Boards Association, Governance Institute, he
is a Senior Fellow in the University of California School of Education,
and maintains an active consulting practice in effective governance. He
serves on a number of state level boards in public education including
the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning (founding
Chairperson), EdSource (President, 2007-2009), The California Institute
for School Improvement, and the Cities, Counties, Schools Partnership
(founding board member). In Yolo County he also serves as a
Commissioner for the Yolo County Aging and Adult Services Commission
and is a member of the Board of Advisors for the UCD School of
Education. 
Kevin Gordon
serves as the President of School Innovations and Advocacy which
represents local school agencies on school finance and policy issues
and provides an array of products and services to support public school
administration. Before joining SI&A, Gordon was the Executive
Director of the California Association of School Business Officials. He
also served for 12 years as the chief lobbyist and assistant executive
director for the California School Boards Association. He also served
as staff director to former Congressman Robert T. Matsui (D-Sacramento)
and as a legislative advocate for the Building Industry Association.
Elizabeth Hill
began a career in state government in 1976, joining California's
Legislative Analyst's Office as a program analyst focusing on criminal
justice. Following specializations in other policy areas, she was
appointed California Legislative Analyst by the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee in 1986. As Legislative Analyst, she serves as a
nonpartisan fiscal advisor to both houses of the California Legislature
and oversees the preparation of annual fiscal and policy analyses of
the State of California's $126 billion budget and its various programs.
Her office has the responsibility of preparing impartial analyses for
all initiatives and constitutional measures qualifying for the state's
ballot.
Mike Kirst
is Emeritus Professor of Education and Business Administration, by
courtesy, at Stanford University. As a policy generalist, Kirst has
published articles on school finance politics, curriculum politics,
intergovernmental relations, and education reform policies. He is the
author of 10 books, including From High School to College (2004), and The Political Dynamics of American Education
(2005). Kirst was a member of the California State Board of Education
from 1975 to 1982 and its president from 1977 to 1981. He was cofounder
of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) in 1983, and is a
member of the management and research staff of the Consortium for
Policy Research in Education. Before joining the Stanford faculty,
Kirst held several positions with the federal government, including
staff director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Manpower and Poverty.
Goodwin Liu
is a law professor at Boalt Hall specializing in constitutional law,
education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. He is also
Co-Director (with Christopher Edley, Jr.) of the Chief Justice Earl
Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, a multidisciplinary
research center at UC Berkeley devoted to civil rights issues in
California and the nation. Before joining the Boalt faculty in 2003,
Professor Liu was an appellate litigator at O'Melveny & Myers in
Washington, D.C., and clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the
U.S. Supreme Court. He served as special assistant to the Deputy
Secretary of Education during the Clinton Administration. A Stanford
alumnus, Rhodes Scholar, and graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Liu
serves on the board of directors of the ACLU of Northern California,
the American Constitution Society in Washington, D.C., and Chinese for
Affirmative Action in San Francisco.
John Mockler
is president of John B. Mockler and Associates, a consulting firm
specializing in education policy and finance. He is the former
executive director of the California State Board of Education in the
Davis Administration and served in an interim capacity as California's
secretary of education. For more than three decades, Mockler has worked
in both the public and private sectors, focusing on issues regarding
adequate education funding and educational achievement. He was a chief
architect of Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for
K–12 schools and community colleges, as well as many of the other laws
governing California's structure for financing schools. Mockler has
been a member of the EdSource Board of Directors since 1996.
Joel Montero
has 30 years of service in public sector institutions in a variety of
roles. He holds a master’s degree in educational administration and a
Bachelor of Science Degree in design engineering. In addition, he has
obtained life credentials in administrative services and secondary
education. His past experience includes Superintendent of a
medium-sized unified school district, assistant superintendencies in
business, personnel and curriculum and instruction, principal,
assistant principal, and classroom teacher. 
Gavin Payne has served as Chief Deputy to California's State Superintendent Jack O'Connell since 2003, managing all activities of the
state Department of Education. He guides partnerships with a diverse
array of stakeholders and philanthropy groups, and oversees
relationships between his Department and the state's school districts
and counties, as well as with the federal government. Payne represents the Superintendent on the Boards of Directors of the
California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) and WestEd. He
also serves on the Board of the Council of Chief State Schools Officers'
(CCSSO) Deputies Leadership Commission and the CCSSO/Smithsonian
Institution Steering Committee.
Jay Pfeiffer
co-chairs the National Education Longitudinal Data Committee of the
Council of Chief State School Officers and is a member of the
Independent Advisory Panel for the National Assessment of Career and
Technical Education. He has been Deputy Commissioner for
Accountability, Research and Measurement since January 2007. This
Division includes the Department of Education's primary student and
staff databases, the Education Data Warehouse, the state's Assessment
program offices, and offices responsible for state and federal K-12
accountability. 
Richard Simpson
is Deputy Chief of Staff for the Speaker of the California State
Assembly, Fabian Núñez. He is responsible for advising the Speaker and
other members of the Assembly on a wide variety of policy and budget
issues. He has served as a senior adviser for five other Assembly
Speakers, spent two years as Chief of Staff for the Senate Education
Committee, six years as Chief Consultant for the Assembly Education
Committee, and, for a short time, as a lobbyist for the California
Teachers Association. He has either written or played a key role in
developing California's major education reforms of the past decade.
Simpson served for 12 years as trustee and president of the Sacramento
County Board of Education.
Dr. Randolph E. Ward
became San Diego County Superintendent of Schools in June, 2006. He was
previously the state-appointed administrator of the Oakland Unified
School District, where, student test scores in Oakland increased
significantly, drop-out rates declined, and he was credited with
closing a multi-million dollar budget shortfall. He also served as the
state-appointed administrator in the Compton Unified School District,
where he was credited with restoring fiscal and academic solvency, and
Compton student test scores increased five consecutive years. 