Mary Filardo
Mary Filardo
Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund
Mary Filardo founded 21CSF in 1994 to provide the District of Columbia and other urban communities with leadership, innovative financing solutions, research, and public policy analysis of school facility issues. She is a leading national authority on school facility planning, management and financing, has written extensively on these public school facility issues, and developed software to support long-range facilities master planning. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, Save Our Schools New Orleans, and the Center for Cities & Schools at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a member of the International Program Advisory Board of the Public Education Network and the national jury for the Richard Riley Award for Schools as Centers of Community. Some of the publications she has authored on these issues include: Growth and Disparity: A Decade of US Public School Construction (2006), Model Policies in Support of High Performance School Buildings for All Children (2006), The Effects of School Facility Quality on Teacher Retention in Urban School Districts (2004), Facilities Information Management: A Guide for State & Local Education Agencies (2003), Citizens Oversight of Public School Construction Programs (2003), Replace or Modernize: The Future of DC's Endangered Old and Historic Public Schools (2002), For Generations To Come: A Leadership Guide to Renewing Public School Buildings (2002), and Public School Capital Improvement Programs: Basic Elements and Best Practices (1999). Before establishing 21CSF, she worked for 25 years in the private sector in building and residential construction management and was an active public school parent during the nineteen years her children were enrolled in the DC public schools. She received a BA in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College, is a 1979 Truman Scholar from the District of Columbia, and completed a MA in Public Policy and Public Finance at the University of Maryland.
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