Bryan Richardson, Manager

Mr. Richardson brings 10 years of public and private sector management experience to the team. As senior consultant at Urban Policy Development, Bryan leads the firm's accountability and management reform engagements with school districts, state education offices, cities, state agencies, and for profit companies. Mr. Richardson has been recognized nationally for his expertise in the development and implementation of the Stat management process.

His engagements have included advising the Office of the State Superintendent of Education in the District of Columbia in their assumption of the state governance role over public education in the district under Mayor Adrian Fenty. There, he shepherded the creation of EdStat, the first Stat accountability process formed at a State Education Agency. Bryan also lead consulting support to the Public School District of Paterson, NJ to implement "Paterson SchoolStat" around curriculum and instruction, the work of school principles, facilities and maintenance, and food service. Bryan also teaches "Government-Stat" a day long course on how to set up Stat processes at any level of management in public agencies with Governing Magazine’s Management Live Conferences.

Bryan served as lead with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Program for Policy Innovation in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to integrate 10 years of student, teacher, and test data for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Schools and the District of Columbia Public Schools.

From 2004 to 2007, Bryan served as the Director of the Baltimore SchoolStat Office at the Baltimore City Public School System. Baltimore SchoolStat is a data-driven performance measurement and accountability program based on the Baltimore CitiStat Program. Major accomplishments during his tenure included the creation of the district's Stat program to oversee its two year "Master Plan," overseeing reforms in teacher recruitment and staffing (which led to 110 fewer teacher vacancies and 43 percent more recruits eligible to be highly qualified in 2006 vs. 2005), and recovering $141 million dollars in state revenue for the district.

Mr. Richardson received his B.A. in International Studies from Emory University and his Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.