Adam Emerson

Executive Director, Office of School Choice
Florida Department of Education

Adam Emerson is the Executive Director of the Office of K-12 School Choice at the Florida Department of Education. In this role, Adam oversees and administers all state-level school choice programs, including charter schools, home and private education, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, and the Family Empowerment Scholarship. Prior to that, he served as the Department’s charter schools director providing oversight and assistance to a sector of public education that now numbers more than 700 charter schools. Before joining the Department in 2014, Adam managed the policy program on charter schools and school choice at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank in Washington. D.C.

Sessions

• Education Savings Accounts and Charter Schools: New Opportunities in School Choice
• The Next Frontier for Charter School Facilities Support