For the last five years, Beverly Donohue has been vice president for policy and research at New Visions for Public Schools, an education reform organization dedicated to improving schools in New York City.

She spent seventeen years in New York City government, focusing on issues of agency and program finance and management, including four years as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and seven years as chief financial officer of the school system.

Donohue was responsible for developing nationally recognized, transparent reports for educational expenditures at the school, regional and system-wide levels; developing software and changing business practices to enable school-based budgeting; instituting “placement-neutral” funding in support of special education reform, and implementing sourcing strategies for commodities that saved the school system $75 million annually.