School Analyst

Sarah Yatsko, MPA

Senior Research Analyst, Center on Reinventing Public Education

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Sarah Yatsko is a Senior Research Analyst at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of

Washington in Seattle, Washington where she has worked since 2007. During her time at CRPE she has conducted

research and analysis on the efficacy of U.S. public school system reforms. Her work has included research and overall

project organizational support for the U.S. Department of Education funded four-year Inside Charter Schools study,

researcher and lead author on a study of school turnaround work in schools and districts awarded school improvement

grants and comprehensive case studies of dramatic district-wide reform efforts in Hartford, CT, Baltimore, MD, and

Cleveland, OH. Sarah has authored several reports on topics ranging from charter high schools, district performance

analysis, school turnaround and narrative case studies of portfolio school districts. She has presented her research to

school districts, communities and several national education conferences and her work has been cited on NPR, The New

York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Sarah is currently lead researcher on a Gates Foundation initiative to fund and

analyze collaboration between school districts and local charter schools. Prior to CRPE, Sarah worked for a decade with

adjudicated youth as a sentencing alternative expert and lead research and authored reports on juvenile criminal legal

representation and barriers to employment for public assistance recipients.

PROFESSIONAL Senior Research Analyst

EXPERIENCE: Center on Reinventing Public Education

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 2007 to Present.

Program Administrator

Washington Defender Association

Seattle, Washington. 2003 to 2007

Project Director

American Bar Association National Juvenile Justice Center

Statewide Assessment of Legal Representation of Juveniles in Washington State

Seattle, Washington. 2002 to 2003.

Research Analyst

Washington State Department of Trade and Economic Development and the

Economic Opportunity Institute

Seattle, Washington. 2001 to 2002.

Privately Contracted Social Worker

King County Superior Court

Civil Commitment Division

Seattle, Washington, 2000 to 2001

Sentencing Alternative Specialist, Juvenile Division

The Seattle King County Public Defenders Association

Seattle, Washington. 1989 to 2000

APPOINTMENTS Appointed to Washington State Governor s Stop the Youth Violence Advisory Committee. 2000

And MEMBERSHIPS: Executive Committee Member, Washington State Bar Juvenile Law Section. 2005-2006

Member of the American Educational Research Association, 2008-Present.

Member of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, 2010-Present.

EDUCATION: Master Degree in Public Administration, June 2009.

Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

Master s Level Course Work in Special Education, 1992

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

B.A. in English Literature, 1989

Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland.

Language Study in Ecuador, Mexico and University of Washington. 1995-1999.

Spanish language fluency.

PUBLICATIONS: (Selected)

Yatsko, Sarah, Robin Lake, Elizabeth Cooley Nelson and Melissa Bowen, Tinkering Toward

Transformation: A Look at Federal School Improvement Grant Implementation March 2012.

Campbell, Christine, Betheny Gross, Cristina Sepe and Sarah Yatsko, Seattle Public Schools

Performance Analysis 2009-2010, November 2010.

Roza, Marguerite and Sarah Yatsko, Beyond Teacher Reassignments: Better Ways Districts Can

Remedy Salary Inequities Across Schools. February 2010.

Yatsko, Sarah, Betheny Gross and Jon Christenen. Charter High Schools: Alternative Paths to

Graduation, November 2009.

Yatsko, Sarah, Barriers to Employment Faced by Community Jobs Participants. July 2002.

Yatsko, Sarah, Kim Ambrose, Esq. and Tracy Sarich, Representation Of Status Offenders

In Washington State Courts, American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section, Juvenile

Justice Center, October, 2003.

Yatsko, Sarah, Disposition from a Social Worker s Perspective, chapter in Juvenile Sentencing Practice

in Washington State June 1993

PRESENTATIONS: (Recent)

District Charter Collaboration Compacts: Progress to Date, Center on Reinventing Public

Education s Portfolio District Network Meeting, Seattle, WA July, 2012.

School Improvement Grants and Turnaround Schools, American Educational Research Association

Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 14, 2012.

Designing Enrollment Systems that Embrace a Variety of Schools and Operators and Making Good

School Closure Decisions, US Department of Education Voluntary Public School Choice

National Conference, Washington D.C. March 30, 2012.

School Turnarounds: Are SIG Dollars Making a Difference? Education Writer s Association

Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 24, 2012.

How School Choice Helped Transform Two School Districts, National School Choice Resource

Center Webinar Series, March 22, 2012.

Can All Schools Be Saved? If Not, What Then? Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International

Affairs and the Education Research Section, Princeton University, Princeton, New

Jersey, March 9, 2012.

Federal School Improvement Grant Implementation, Education Writer s Association Webinar,

August 11, 2011.

School Turnarounds, Center on Reinventing Public Education s Portfolio District Network

Meeting, Washington D.C., July, 2011.

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