Center for Public Research and Leadership

The Center for Public Research and Leadership (“CPRL”) is an emerging partnership of top professional schools that prepares students for leadership positions in public education organizations committed to improving the life chances of all children. The program aspires to bring together upper-level graduate students in business, policy, education, and law from universities across the nation to study and engage in consulting projects serving public- and social-sector organizations undertaking and supporting transformational change in K-12 education and in the public sector as a whole. We offer graduate students the rigorous, multi-disciplinary, academic and experiential preparation they need to flourish in exciting leadership, management, and professional positions in those same organizations while simultaneously offering the organizations high-quality, low-cost consulting support.