Paul O’Neill is an education attorney, professor, and author. He has extensive experience in guiding education organizations through challenges and growth. Throughout his career, he has advised schools, authorizers, networks, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and philanthropies on the rules and complexities that apply to educational organizations as well as on effective board governance. Paul’s professional experience spans the education sector. He served as General Counsel of the SUNY Charter Schools Institute, one of the nation’s leading charter school authorizing offices. He has also served for years as a lawyer in private practice, for boutique law firms specializing in education law as well as large corporate law firms, and as in-house counsel for a large school management organization. Paul is currently a Partner and Co-Chair of the Education Law practice group at Barton Gilman LLP. He is a former Associate Director of the Newgrange School and Educational Outreach Center in New Jersey, which serves individuals with learning disabilities, and co-founder of the national Center for Learner Equity. On the academic side, Paul has served for more than 20 years as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, where he teaches courses on education law and policy. He is a frequent guest lecturer at other universities on a range of education reform topics and is the author of several books and numerous scholarly and professional articles. Paul holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, and an M.Ed. from Teachers College.
Courses:
EDPA 4086: Education & the Law: Speech, Religion, Regulation; ORLA 4058: Privatization and Choice in Education
