Education Center of Excellence – Public Sector, Foundations, and Non-Profit Education Providers

Parthenon’s efforts in supporting public education are grounded in deep and long-term partnerships with leading U.S. state departments of education, school districts, school networks, and foundations that support public education reform. Across all public sector and foundation engagements, we focus on education innovation, reform, and operations in order to raise student outcomes, improve system efficiency, increase college and workforce readiness, and eliminate persistent student achievement gaps.

Since 2002, Parthenon has completed more than 100 strategic education projects with a broad range of clients across the U.S. public education sector, including individual schools, school management networks, school districts and state departments of education, as well as leading national foundations. All Parthenon engagements emphasize data-driven, actionable insights with a relentless focus on student outcomes. Our Education Center of Excellence (ECE) has also completed dozens of business planning engagements with schools, charter management organizations, local education funds and other local and national education organization. These partnerships have all focused on raising expectation, standards and outcomes for all students.

Our ECE offers support to all clients through close partner and management team oversight, including a dedicated ECE director with deep district and public sector experience.  Parthenon teams are composed of experienced ECE members who provide consistency across engagements and at all levels. Parthenon's ECE team members bring both a professional and personal passion for education to every client engagement. Education is at the core of our organization and our commitment to the field is unparalleled.

Learn more about Parthenon's public sector, foundation and non-profit education work:

Representative Work

• Parthenon's Education Center of Excellence in TIME Magazine
• Parthenon Graduation Pathways Summary 2008
• Boston Public Schools Off-Track Data & Strategy Implications 2007
• Chicago Public Schools Graduation Pathways Summit 2008
• NYC DOE Office of Multiple Pathways Findings 2006
• NYC DOE Secondary Reform Select Analyses 2006