Max Marchitello

Marchitello
Max Marchitello
Independent Education Consultant

Max Marchitello is an independent education consultant focused on education policy and advocacy. He previously served as a senior analyst at Bellwether Education Partners and as a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, where he worked on school finance, educator diversity, and policies to improve outcomes for historically underserved students. He was also a Bill Taylor Fellow at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. His expertise spans legislative, federal, and state education issues, with a particular focus on equity, school finance, and teacher workforce policies. Before transitioning to policy research and advisory, he was a high school English teacher in Philadelphia, working in high-needs urban schools. Marchitello earned his MEd in secondary education from Arcadia University and an MS in social policy from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Publications by Max Marchitello
Enrollment in California public schools has been declining and is projected to fall even more steeply during the next decade. Because funding for school districts is largely based on average daily attendance rates, a decline in enrollment results in…