Katharine Strunk

Katharine O. Strunk, PhD, is Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert on K-12 education governance, including teachers’ unions, collective bargaining agreements, and portfolio management models, as well as teacher labor markets, school turnaround, and accountability policies. She has worked extensively with district and state policymakers, including working with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the California and Michigan Departments of Education to help decision makers formulate, design, and revise policy. Dr. Strunk’s work has been supported by state and federal contracts and grants as well as by philanthropic organizations. Dr. Strunk received her PhD in Educational Administration and Policy and her MA in Economics from Stanford University, and her BA in Public Policy from Princeton University.

Prior to moving to Penn GSE, Dr. Strunk was the Clifford E. Erickson Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and, by courtesy, Economics at Michigan State University, where she served as the inaugural faculty director of EPIC. Dr. Strunk was president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Board for the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH).