Sarah Jonas
About Sarah Jonas
Sarah Jonas leads the NYC DOE Office of Community Schools, supporting over 300 community schools (the largest effort in the country), and managing attendance policy, interventions for students in temporary housing, and expanded learning time programming for all NYC schools. She is a member of Class 11 of the Annie E. Casey Children and Family Fellowship and chaired the Brookings Institution Task Force on Next Generation Community Schools, which produced the February 2021 report Addressing Education Inequality With a Next Generation of Community Schools: A Blueprint for Mayors, States and the Federal Government. Sarah served as an adviser to the Obama White House and the U.S. Department of Education on the national My Brother's Keeper Every Student, Every Day Campaign, a Federal initiative dedicated to eliminating chronic absenteeism across 30 school districts. She is a certified teacher who taught in public elementary schools in Los Angeles (as a charter member of Teach for America) and New York City. Sarah received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.