Linda G. Clarke
Education and Special Projects Director for the City of Houston and Mayor Bill White
Before joining Mayor Bill White's team as a special advisor, Linda was executive director of The Houston A+ Challenge (formerly the Houston Annenberg Challenge), where she raised and directed the largest sum of private money ever dedicated to school reform in the Houston area.
Linda has worked Pre-K through 16 as a teacher and principal, and at the district level, as a consultant for at risk students in mathematics and reading, reporting directly to the superintendent.
As a principal, she started two new schools for the Aldine Independent School District, including a magnet school and the first arts-centered school and developed and implemented numerous successful programs to serve students who are autistic, emotionally disturbed, who speak English as a second language, and who are bilingual.
Linda was a program design expert for Phale Hale Educational Consulting of Washington, D.C. where she worked with schools throughout the U.S. designing and implementing magnet programs. She serves on numerous boards and committees, including the Houston Grand Opera Policy Committee; the Cross City Campaign-Chicago; the University of Houston-Downtown C.P.D.T. Board and the University of St. Thomas's Advisory Board for Visitors. She is a member of the Education and Workforce Advisory Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership, the Houston P- 16 Council, and the Read Commission. Linda served as co-chair for the Education Taskforce for World Space Congress 2002 and chaired and developed the 2006 Public Education Network Campaign- "Give Kids Good Schools." She is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum.
A native Houstonian, she holds a BS and a Master of Clinical Education from the University of Texas, Austin; attended the Leadership Program at the University of Michigan's School of Business and the Change Leadership Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Linda's most recent work is "Building Constructive Partnerships in Urban Reform," Research Perspectives on School Reform: Lessons from the Annenberg Challenge, with Dr. Pedro Reyes of the University of Texas and Dr. Joy Phillips of the University of Houston.
Education and Special Projects Director for the City of Houston and Mayor Bill White
Before joining Mayor Bill White's team as a special advisor, Linda was executive director of The Houston A+ Challenge (formerly the Houston Annenberg Challenge), where she raised and directed the largest sum of private money ever dedicated to school reform in the Houston area.Linda has worked Pre-K through 16 as a teacher and principal, and at the district level, as a consultant for at risk students in mathematics and reading, reporting directly to the superintendent.
As a principal, she started two new schools for the Aldine Independent School District, including a magnet school and the first arts-centered school and developed and implemented numerous successful programs to serve students who are autistic, emotionally disturbed, who speak English as a second language, and who are bilingual.
Linda was a program design expert for Phale Hale Educational Consulting of Washington, D.C. where she worked with schools throughout the U.S. designing and implementing magnet programs. She serves on numerous boards and committees, including the Houston Grand Opera Policy Committee; the Cross City Campaign-Chicago; the University of Houston-Downtown C.P.D.T. Board and the University of St. Thomas's Advisory Board for Visitors. She is a member of the Education and Workforce Advisory Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership, the Houston P- 16 Council, and the Read Commission. Linda served as co-chair for the Education Taskforce for World Space Congress 2002 and chaired and developed the 2006 Public Education Network Campaign- "Give Kids Good Schools." She is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum.
A native Houstonian, she holds a BS and a Master of Clinical Education from the University of Texas, Austin; attended the Leadership Program at the University of Michigan's School of Business and the Change Leadership Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Linda's most recent work is "Building Constructive Partnerships in Urban Reform," Research Perspectives on School Reform: Lessons from the Annenberg Challenge, with Dr. Pedro Reyes of the University of Texas and Dr. Joy Phillips of the University of Houston.
