Roberto Rodriguez

Roberto Rodriguez serves on the White House Domestic Policy Council as the Special Assistant to the President for education policy. Before moving to the White House, Rodriguez was a senior education adviser to U.S. senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. His duties included legislative, policy, budget, and appropriations work on a variety of education issues, including early education and elementary and secondary education. Among those issues, he focused on the No Child Left Behind Act, Head Start, child care, and the education of special populations. Before working on the Senate Committee, Mr. Rodriguez served as senior education specialist at the National Council for La Raza, where he engaged in applied research and policy analysis of federal and state education reform issues and facilitated the development and evaluation of NCLR's community based education programs.