Adam Schott is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Adam most recently served as Special Assistant to Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Education, where he led efforts to redesign the state’s accountability system, strengthen oversight of the state’s virtual school sector, and implement the nation’s first commissioned research on school reopening to include modeling on disease transmission.

Schott previously led the policy research arm of Philadelphia-based Research for Action and served as Executive Director of the PA State Board of Education. He is a graduate of Penn State and Harvard.