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Yutaka Tamura is currently serving as the interim chief executive officer at the Excel Academy Charter School, a school he founded and previously served as exective director. Prior to this role, Yutaka was senior advisor to Relay Graduate School of Education (RGSE), where he previously served as Chief Operating Officer for three years. Recently licensed by New York State and formerly known as Teacher U, RGSE is a new, independent graduate school with a ground-breaking master's degree program designed specifically to respond to today's demand for effective teachers. RGSE's Master's Program is the first-ever to require its graduate students to demonstrate proficiency and achievement while teaching in their K-12 classrooms to earn a degree. Prior to joining RGSE, Tamura founded and served as the executive director of Excel Academy Charter School, which serves low-income, middle school, predominantly Latino students from the urban Massachusetts communities of East Boston and Chelsea. The Center for Education Reform recognized Excel Academy as a National Charter School of the Year in 2007, and the following year, Excel students at every single grade level outperformed their state peers on both the math and English MCAS. In preparation for the founding of Excel Academy, Tamura completed a year-long residency with the Building Excellent Schools fellowship program. Tamura began his career as a management consultant at The Parthenon Group, a strategy consulting firm. Tamura earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Amherst College. He is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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