Cecilia Elena Rouse is a professor of economics and public affairs and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Clive R. Belfield is associate director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York. He also is an assistant professor of economics at Queens College, City University of New York.

Joseph Viteritti is the Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Urban Affairs & Planning Department at Hunter College in New York City. He has also served as Faculty Chair of the Public Policy Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.

Kenneth K. Wong holds the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair in Education Policy at Brown University in Providence, R.I. He also is director of the school’s Urban Education Policy Program and was the founding director in 2004 and 2005 of the National Research Center on School Choice, Competition and Student Achievement.

Paul Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research.  

The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.

The National School Boards Association, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is a non-profit that works to support school board members across the country and to further the goals of public education.

The Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice is based in Indianapolis and works to educate the public and policymakers about school choice issues. Contact through Susan Meyers, national media relations director.

Black Alliance for Educational Options is a national nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C. The alliance works to support parental choice and increase quality educational options for African-American students. Contact through Tanzi West, director of communications.