He is a founding board member at Latin Academy Charter School, a startup middle school in Atlanta, and has helped found a hybrid homeschool/private high school, St. John Bosco Academy. Prior to joining the faculty at GGC, Eric served as Deputy Director of the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, where he helped design and conduct Georgia’s first statewide standardized testing audit, managed the publication of the state’s annual report card, and worked on several Georgia-specific research projects in education policy. His work has been published by the Journal of School Choice, the Cato Institute, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others. He began his career as a high school English teacher at Duluth High School in Gwinnett County.