Cliff Chuang
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Cliff Chuang currently serves as Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. He leads the Center for Educational Options, whose mission is to expand, enhance, and ensures equitable access to high quality educational options for learners of all ages, especially those who have been historically underserved. He is responsible for supporting and overseeing the wide range of educational options available to Massachusetts families, including charter, virtual, and other redesigned school models; career technical education; adult basic education; early learning; and out-of-school time programs. He also oversees the Department's student and family support initiatives and the state's problem resolution system to ensure educational equity.
The Department has been recognized as a national leader for charter school and career/vocational technical educational quality, and in the way leaders partner with the field in research and support initiatives. He currently serves on the board of the Center for Learner Equity. Cliff previously served as the director of charter schools for the New York State Education Department and on the national advisory board of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. Cliff started his career teaching secondary mathematics and science in Boston, in both district and charter school settings. He holds a A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University, and a M.Ed. in Secondary Mathematics Teaching from Boston College.
“I am motivated by almost all aspects of the open system approach, and I am most interested in helping to think through how this looks practically and tangibly for state-level education policy, where the range of stakeholders and interests is vast and wide, and the policy impact is very real.”