Mr. Cerf served as Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, Superintendent of the Newark, New Jersey public schools and New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education. Co-founder of the National Summer School Initiative, he continues to serve as board chair. Other non-profit boards include Excellence in Education, NJCan,and the Uplands Center Foundation. In the private sector, Mr. Cerf sits on several company boards and previously served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton and as a partner in two Washington, D.C., law firms. A graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, Mr. Cerf also was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Prior to attending law school, he spent four years as a high school history teacher.