Raynard Sanders

Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., is an educator, educational administrator, and public education advocate from New Orleans. He has served as a teacher, high school principal, professor, and director of the Urban Education Graduate Program at Southern University at New Orleans. Sanders also served as executive director of The National Faculty, a professional-development agency for teachers, and hosts The New Orleans Imperative, a radio program focused on public education. He holds degrees from Dillard University, Southern University, and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Sanders is the coauthor, with David Stovall and Terrenda White, of Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools: The Impact of Charters on Public Education, which examines charter-school expansion in New Orleans, Chicago, and New York. His other published works include The Coup D’état of the New Orleans Public Schools: Money, Power, and the Illegal Takeover of a Public School System and What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School.