Victoria Hammer

Director, Evidence-Based Policy for the Office of Formula Grants
Office of Elementary & Secondary Education

Victoria has worked at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) for 12 years in multiple offices across ED. She started in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, supporting States to meet the assessment and accountability requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education of 1965, as amended. From there, she supported policy development in the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development (OPEPD), oversaw a team of research analysts conducting evaluations of various ED programs in the Policy and Program Studies Service in OPEPD, and finally returned back to OESE to oversee a team of analysts charged with supporting grantees to build and use evidence in their ED-funded grants.