Specialty Areas: Urban Education

Bill Wendling is:

Executive Director of the Ohio 8 Coalition
(a strategic alliance of Ohio's big-city superintendents and teacher union presidents)
• Responsible for government affairs, media relations, public awareness, position development
• Develops cohesive responses to state funding issues
• Develops cohesive responses to issues raised by federal No Child Left Behind Act
• Maintains high-level contacts in Columbus and Washington DC

Consultant to Greater Cleveland Community Vision Council
• Counsel on issues related to the use of schools as community resources.

Consultant to Stupski Foundation

Consultant to Cleveland Heights - University Heights School District
• Counsel on issues related to implementing small schools at the high-school level

Former Chief Communications & External Affairs Officer for Cleveland Municipal School District

Citizens Advisory Committee on School Governance
• Principal author of civic report calling for mayoral control of Cleveland Municipal School District

Education co-chair, Cleveland International Children's Games, 2004

Former education co-chair, Cleveland Unity Day

Member of Alumni Advisory Council to College of Arts and Science, Miami University

Trustee, Barbara Byrd-Bennett Foundation for Cleveland's Children

Former Chief Communications & External Affairs Officer for Cleveland Municipal School District

Other clients include:
Cleveland Initiative for Education, The Cleveland Foundation, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Vocational Guidance Services