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He co-founded of Diplomas Now, an evidence based school transformation model for high needs middle and high schools that combined whole school reform with enhanced student supports guided by an early warning system, and winner of a federal Investing in Innovation (I3) validation grant which was implemented in forty schools across twelve school districts.
Dr. Balfanz is the first recipient of the Alliance For Excellent Education’s Everyone a Graduate Award and the National Forum’s to Accelerate Middle Grade Reform Joan Lipsitzs Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013 he was named a Champion for Change for African American Education by the White House. He holds a B.A. in history from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in education from the University of Chicago.