President Donald Trump has appointed James Lynn Woodworth to the top post at the . He鈥檒l serve a six-year term as commissioner, ending in June of 2021.
Woodworth is currently a quantitative research analyst at the at Stanford University鈥檚 Hoover Institute, a conservative think tank. CREDO has done extensive research on charter schools, school closures, online education, and other issues. Before that, he served as a distinguished doctoral fellow in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. (That department is headed up by Jay P. Greene, who has written extensively about school choice.)
Before that, Woodworth spent 11 years as an Arkansas public school teacher. He鈥檚 also a Marine Corps veteran.
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