The Churn

Christy Wolfe, former senior vice president of policy, research, and planning at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, is now director of K-12 education policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Matthew Chingos, who was the vice president for work, education, and labor at the Urban Institute, is taking a one-year leave to serve as a fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Danny Carlson, who previously served as deputy assistant secretary for policy and programs in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, has been named the new executive director of the Learning First Alliance.

Bernadine Futrell, former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, has joined the Institute for Educational Leadership as a senior fellow.

Liz Cohen, FutureEd’s former policy director, has joined 50CAN as vice president of policy.

Mike Flanagan, currently CEO of the Mastery Transcript Consortium, has been named the CEO of the new organization that will be formed through the merger of the Educational Records Bureau and the Enrollment Management Association.

DreJean Cummings, formerly the manager of strategic initiatives at the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission, is now the assistant director for strategic communications at the Annenberg Institute. Grace Falken, who had previously been a research consultant at the Annenberg Institute, has also joined the organization as project director.

Tim Abram, who was previously the director of policy at the Charter School Growth Fund, is now the senior director of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.