- Stanley S. Litow, Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs & President, IBM International Foundation (Chair)
- Senator John Flanagan, Senate Education Committee Chair (Senate appointee)
- Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Assembly Education Committee Chair (Assembly appointee)
- Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Graduate School of Education
- Todd Hathaway, Teacher, East Aurora High School (Erie County)
- Alice Jackson-Jolley, Parent (Westchester County)
- Anne Kress, President, Monroe Community College
- Nick Lawrence, Teacher, East Bronx Academy for the Future (NYC)
- Delia Pompa, Senior Vice President of Programs, National Council of La Raza
- Charles Russo, Superintendent, East Moriches UFSD (Long Island)
- Dan Weisberg, EVP & General Counsel, The New Teacher Project