| Access is located at Teachers
College, Columbia University.
Staff
Executive Director - Michael
A. Rebell
Policy Director - Jessica
Wolff
Policy Associate - Marcela
Briceño
To contact us, please use our Contact
page.
Michael
A. Rebell
Professor
Michael A. Rebell is the Executive Director of the National
Access Network. As a Yale Law School graduate, Professor
Rebell, is an experienced attorney who has specialized
for decades in education law litigation, including education
finance, education adequacy, special education, desegregation,
school decentralization and testing. Rebell has served
as executive director and co-counsel for the Campaign
for Fiscal Equity (CFE), which he co-founded in 1995.
Following the CFE rulings in favor of plaintiffs that
presented cases of inadequate school funding to the
NY state courts, Professor Rebell has written widely
and consulted with attorneys, adocates, policymakers
and governmental officials in dozens of other states
to promote education adequacy litigations and their
successful implementation. Professor Rebell also leads
the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College,
Columbia University, which seeks to overcome the gap
in educational access and achievement between America's
most and least advantaged students. He is also a Director
of the American Education Finance Association (AEFA).
Back
to Top
Jessica
Wolff
Jessica R. Wolff is the Policy Director at Access and
has long been involved in public education as an advocate,
writer, educator, and active public school parent. She
is co-author with Michael A. Rebell of Moving Every
Child Ahead: Beyond NCLB Hype to Meaningful Educational
Opportunity (Teachers College Press, 2008). From
2000-2005, she served as director of policy development
of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), where she played
a critical role in bringing the public voice into policy
development. Her work with the Sound Basic Education
Task Force on Accountability helped guide recent school
funding legislation in New York State. Among other works,
she is author of the series, In Evidence: Policy Reports
from the CFE Trial. Prior to CFE, she wrote widely on
public school issues for the Public Education Association
and, for many years, authored a monthly column on public
education for the award-winning online news journal
Gotham Gazette. Ms. Wolff has a B.A. from Brown
University and an M.A. from New York University.
Back to Top
Marcela
Briceño
Marcela Briceño is a Policy Associate at Access.
She graduated from Harvard University in 2007 with a
B.A in Government and additional coursework in Romance
Languages and Literatures. Marcela was involved in several
education intitiatives throughout college, and she is
now a fellow for the Center for Public Interest Careers.
At Access she researches and writes on national education
policy issues, updates the website, and supports the
Access Network in various capacities.
Back
to Top
|
