The Schott Foundation for Public Education, in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that its president, John H. Jackson, has been named to a transition group that will advise the incoming Obama administration on education-policy priorities.

It noted that the head of one of its grantees — Geri D. Palast, executive director for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, in New York—has also been named to the Education Policy Working Group.

The Schott Foundation supports work aimed at improving public schools. Mr. Jackson previously served as a civil-rights adviser in the U.S. Education Department during the Clinton Administration.

The Obama transition project has posted the names of members of the working groups who are advising the next administration in various policy areas. However, most of them do not include biographical information.

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