Tom Greene is a public policy professional with two decades of experience in K-12 education. As the Senior Education Policy Advisor at SAS, he works with state education leaders to harness the power of data and analytics to improve student outcomes. Tom started his career teaching high school as a North Carolina Teaching Fellow before going on to serve national education organizations as a policy analyst, legislative director, and executive leader. Prior to joining SAS, Tom was the Vice President of Advocacy for the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) since January 2020, where he led a national team of education policy advocates in more than 30 states.
Iowa’s Pleasant Valley School District faced a challenge familiar to many educators: mountains of student data, but limited insight into what it all meant. Ranked in the top 15% of districts statewide, Pleasant Valley knew it was succeeding – but it wanted to understand exactly why and how to do
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