The Churn

Mark Baxter, currently the vice president of Rodel, will join Bellwether as a partner on the policy and evaluation team in February.

Mayme Hostetter, the current president of Relay Graduate School of Education, will be the next president of Hamline University starting in July.

Teach for America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard is stepping down. Aneesh Sohoni, the current CEO of One Million Degrees, will succeed her in April.

Mark Sass is stepping down as the executive director of Teach Plus Colorado. Jamita Horton, previously the executive policy officer at the Public Education & Business Coalition, will succeed him as executive director.

Geoffrey Nagle, who had previously been CEO at the Erikson Institute and an adjunct professor at Tulane University, is the new Chief Operating Officer at The Chicago Public Education Fund.

Jessica Hathaway, who was a senior policy analyst with the New Mexico Legislative Education Study Committee, is now the deputy director.

Lynne Munson, founder and CEO of Great Minds PBC, is stepping down. She has been named CEO emeritus of Great Minds and will launch a new company. John White, the current chief success officer, has been named the new CEO.

Cindy Marten, who served as deputy secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Biden, was nominated to become the next secretary of education in Delaware.