Bill Jackson is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of
GreatSchools (www.GreatSchools.org), an independent, non-profit
organization that empowers and inspires parents to participate in
their child’s development and educational success. A former teacher,
Bill is a nationally recognized expert on parental involvement in
children’s education. Under his leadership GreatSchools has grown to
become the leading national source of information about pre-school to
12 information for parents, with more than 35 million parents turning
to Webby Award-winning GreatSchools last year alone.

Before founding GreatSchools, Bill enjoyed successful careers in
education and technology. He has worked as a teacher in Washington,
D.C. and Hunan, China and served as a project director at Smart
Valley, Inc., where he developed SmartVoter.org, now a project of the
League of Women Voters, and GovGuide.org, now a project of the San
Jose Mercury News. He was also director of engineering at Tribe
Computer Works and helped start Whistle Communications, a computer
networking company. An avid public school volunteer, Bill serves on
the board of directors of the San Francisco Education Fund and
recently served as treasurer of two San Francisco school financing
measures and a school board campaign. He was also recently appointed
to the California "P-16 Council" by State Superintendent of
Instruction Jack O'Connell and is member of the board of directors of
the California Voter Foundation. Bill holds a degree in mechanical
engineering from Yale University and is a graduate of the San
Francisco Coro Fellows Program.

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