Ms. Jones Sessler , 40 , was until last month the associate director of kindergarten-through-eighth-grade education at the Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken , N.J. She graduated from Virginia Union University in Richmond , and received a master 's degree in early-childhood and elementary education from the Bank Street College of Education , a master 's degree in curriculum and teaching from Columbia and a master 's degree in educational leadership in June from the City College of New York .