Contacts:

Shawna Ellis
se@schottfoundation.org
617-876-7700

Biographies for Key Campaign Spokespeople:

John H. Jackson, Ed.D., J.D.
President and CEO
Schott Foundation for Public Education

On July 2, 2007, Dr. John H. Jackson became the President and CEO of The Schott Foundation for Public Education.  In this role, Dr. Jackson leads the Foundation’s efforts to ensure a high quality public education for all students regardless of where they live. Dr. Jackson joined the Schott Foundation after seven productive years in leadership positions at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He served as the NAACP Chief Policy Officer and prior to that as the NAACP's National Director of Education.

Dr. Jackson also served as an Adjunct Professor of Race, Gender, and Public Policy at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.  In 1999, President William Jefferson Clinton appointed Dr. Jackson to serve in his administration as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education.

Dr. Jackson possesses a B.A. in Political Science from Xavier University of Louisiana; an M.Ed. in Education Policy from the University of Illinois' College of Education; and a J.D. from the University of Illinois' College of Law. In addition, Dr. Jackson has an M. Ed. and Ed.D. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Jackson served on the Obama-Biden transition team as a member of the President’s 13-member Education Policy Transition Work Group.

Tina Dove
OTL Campaign Director

Tina Dove, a longtime education advocate and former teacher, is the new director of the National Opportunity to Learn (OTL) Campaign, where she helps develop and implement outreach and policy strategies.

Dove works in Washington, D.C., where she most recently was manager of public policy for ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development). As the OTL Campaign director, Dove supports grassroots mobilization efforts, helps expand collaboration in target states, and plans and executes strategies to build public will for state and federal policy change.

Prior to joining the Opportunity to Learn Campaign, Dove was manager of public policy advocacy for ASCD, advancing its policy agenda on Capitol Hill, and with the White House and federal agencies. She previously served as the advocacy liaison and intergovernmental coordinator for the National PTA, working with PTA members nationwide to strengthen grassroots efforts to help schools.

Dove began her policy career on Capitol Hill working for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. Dove is also an experienced teacher, having taught high school social studies in the District of Columbia Public Schools, Fairfax County (Va.) Public Schools, and the Redlands (Calif.) Unified School District.

Dove holds a B.A. in political science and sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a M.Ed. in secondary education from the George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
 

Related Resources

• Read an interview with Dr. John Jackson, the President and CEO of The Schott Foundation for Public Education, and learn about the background and importance of Lost Opportunity: a 50 state Report on the Opportunity to Learn in America.