Stéphane Lavertu

Stéphane Lavertu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Professor at The Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs, and Associate Director of the Salmon P. Chase Center at OSU. He has conducted numerous studies on education governance, school accountability policies, and public- and private-school choice programs. For the Fordham Institute, he has completed rigorous, Ohio-focused analyses about the impacts of school closure, interdistrict open enrollment, public charter schools, and the EdChoice scholarship. His interdisciplinary academic research on education governance and policy has appeared in political science journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics; economics journals such as Economics of Education Review, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Urban Economics; education journals such as Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis and AERA Open; and public administration journals such as Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory and Journal of Policy Analysis & Management. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin, a master’s degree in education from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from The Ohio State University.