ABOUT EPP

Key EPP Staff

Noreen Connell, Executive Director
Since 1989, Noreen Connell has been the executive director of the Educational Priorities Panel. From 1984 to 1988, Ms. Connell was the state president of the National Organization for Women. From 1983 to 1984, she was an assistant commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor. Her publications include articles on education and work/family issues that have appeared in: City Limits News Magazine, Dollars and Sense, The Nation, New Labor Forum, New York Newsday, Social Policy, The Utne ReaderSetting the NYS Policy Agenda. Ms. Connell received an M.A. in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and a B.A. in Sociology from Beloit College, Wisconsin.

Dr. Scheuer lives in Larchmont, N.Y., where she was a founder of the local Head Start program in Mamaroneck known as The Village Fours and served on the Mamaroneck Board of Education. She is currently on the boards of the State Communities Aid Association, the Stanton-Heiskell Center for Public Policy in Telecommunication and Information Systems, and the New York Hall of Science.

Dr. Scheuer has published articles in the Journal of Educational Finance and in Phi Beta Kappan and is the author of many reports on school budgeting and state aid, most recently, Options in School Finance Reform in New York State (1995) and Checkerboard Schooling; How State Aid Affects High Minority School Districts in New York State (1999).

Martine G. Guerrier, Communications Director
Martine Guerrier joins the staff of EPP as Communications Director. She has most recently served as the EPP Albany Legislative Representative as its champion for public education. She is a former President of Community School Board 13 in Brooklyn. Ms. Guerrier is the Brooklyn Representative to the Panel for Educational Policy; member of the Coro LNY XIII; and on the Board of Directors of the Broooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy (BBPC). She holds a degree in Social Economic Policy from Wells College in Aurora, N.Y.