Bernstein Strategy Group's Founder and President, Jon has over twenty-five years of experience in education, technology, privacy, appropriations and telecommunications policy. Jon began his Washington, DC tenure in 1994 as a Legislative Fellow for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), working on immigration, crime, intellectual property and judiciary issues. His education advocacy career commenced the following year when he became Legislative Counsel for The Lightspan Partnership, an educational software company. In 1997, Jon moved on to lobby for the National Education Association, leaving there in 1999 to commence work for the Federal Communications Commission. He departed the Commission in 2001 to begin work in private practice and launched BSG in 2005. Today, Jon works closely with many of the major k-12 education associations as co-chair of both the Education and Libraries Networks Coalition (EdLiNC) and the Homework Gap Big Tent Coalition and as Executive Director of the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET). He also helps lead the Principals Group, which focuses on professional development funding and related issues. He received his BA from Colgate University and his JD from the Northwestern University Law School. Bernstein Strategy Group is a full service government relations and consulting firm that provides comprehensive lobbying services, grassroots organizing, event coordination, research, planning and organizing. Our representatives are experts in education, and telecommunications, technology. We have the knowledge and experience to guide clients through Congress and the Executive branch, and work closely with various industry and non-profit stakeholder groups to achieve client objectives.