John C. White has/had a position (State Education Chiefs) at Ridge Lane, LP

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Notes John C. White State Education Chiefs John C. White is a Board Member of the State Education Chiefs at RIDGE-LANE LP. Mr. White served as Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana, under Governor’s Bobby Jindal and John Bel Edwards, with the distinction of being the longest serving state education chief in the nation. He unified the state’s fragmented early childhood system, modernized curriculum, implemented programs to professionalize the preparation of educators, provided pathways to prosperity for all high school graduates, and provided families with expansive school options irrespective of their financial means. Louisiana is a better educated state than at any point in the state’s history, with significant improvements to graduation rates, college scholarships, overall college enrolments, and Advanced Placement early college credits. Louisiana students ranked first in the nation for improvement in 8th grade mathematics on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) and in the decade spanning Superintendent White’s tenure, Louisiana’s academic growth has outpaced the nation, ranking in the top 10 among states for improvement on every NAEP test. Previously, he served under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein as Deputy Chancellor for the New York City Department of Education and served as Executive Director of Teach For America – Chicago and Teach For America – New Jersey. He began his career as an English teacher at William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. White’s writings on education have been published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Education Next, the Daily Beast, The Hill, and the Brookings Institution’s Evidence Speaks. He has testified in Congress on the No Child Left Behind Act, the Every Student Succeeds Act, the Higher Education Act, and early childhood care and education. White received a B.A. in English with distinction from the University of Virginia and a Master's in Public Administration from New York University. He is former chairman of the independent non-profit advocacy organization Chiefs for Change, co-founder and chairman of Propel America, and an Academic Visitor to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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