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Education policy in plain English — because the system was built to be confusing, and that's not an accident.

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Jessica Thorne

20 years in education policy · Presidential Leadership Scholar · DonorsChoose

Hi, I'm Jess. VP of Government Partnerships at DonorsChoose, twenty-year education policy nerd, and the person at every dinner party who can't stop talking about public schools. I've spent two decades at the intersection of classrooms and capitol buildings. I'm also a mom and the daughter of a teacher. I have feelings about public schools. Loud ones. The Public School Project is what I'm building so you can too.