Michael Petrilli

Vice President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Phone: 202-223-5452

Email: MPetrilli@edexcellence.net

Area of Expertise:

Education Reform

Mike Petrilli is Vice President for National Programs and Policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, where he oversees the Foundation's research projects and publications, including The Education Gadfly. He is also research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Executive Editor of Education Next. Petrilli is author, with Frederick M. Hess, of No Child Left Behind: A Primer, the most comprehensive overview of the law and its implementation to date. He comes to the Foundation from the U.S. Department of Education, where he served as Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary in the Office of Innovation and Improvement. In that role, he oversaw approximately two-dozen discretionary grant programs that support a variety of education reforms, including alternate routes to certification, charter schools, and more, and helped to lead the implementation of No Child Left Behind's public school choice and supplemental services provisions.