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Chairman
Education Advisory Board
Robert W. Sweet,
Jr.
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Having served eight years
on the United States House of Representatives
Committee on Education; appointed by United States
President Ronald Reagan as Deputy Director and
Acting Director of the National Institute for
Education; appointed by United States President
George H.W. Bush, and confirmed by the United
States Senate as Administrator for Juvenile
Justice; founder and President of the National
Right to Read Foundation; authored the Reading
First legislation that currently provides more
than $1 Billion dollars annually to all fifty
states for teacher training, the
purchase of text books and diagnostic assessments
to improve reading proficiency for the nation’s
most vulnerable children; Served
as an Education Analyst for the Senate Republican
Policy Committee; Served as the Deputy Executive
Secretary of the Domestic Policy Council at the
White House; Served as senior staff member in the
Office of Policy Development at the White House;
Served as Executive Director of the National
Council on Education Research; Served as special
assistant to the Assistant Secretary for
Elementary and Secondary Education at the
Department of Education.
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