John H. Jackson has been named the president of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit organization that works to improve education for low-income minority students. Mr. Jackson, 34, is currently the chief policy officer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, based in Baltimore. He will begin his new job July 2.
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