Margery Anne Yeager

Margery Yeager is a policy advisor for EducationCounsel LLC. She provides assistance to clients at state education agencies and other state-level entities to inform, guide, and facilitate the process of policy change. She also works with various nationally and federally focused organizations to provide assistance in strategic planning and policy analysis.

Ms. Yeager served as a Special Assistant to the Chancellor of DC Public Schools from 2007-2011. In this position she managed student recruitment and enrollment, intra-district school choice, and school transitions. During this time period, student enrollment increased in DCPS for the first time in over 40 years.

Ms. Yeager also completed a Presidential Management Fellowship at the U.S. Department of Education where she oversaw evaluations of various programs under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) including alternative teacher certification, state and local flexibility provisions, and out-of-school time programs. During this fellowship, she also completed a rotation at the independent think-tank Education Sector where she published articles on NCLB flexibility provisions and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Ms. Yeager began her career as a second grade teacher at Simon Elementary in Washington D.C. with Teach for America.

Ms. Yeager earned her Masters of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2005. She earned her Bachelors of Arts, summa cum laude, in Psychology and Sociology from Tufts University in 2001.