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| Lauren Weisberg Kaufman |
Lauren Weisberg Kaufman is an education specialist with the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA), the state’s largest business organization with more than 10,000 member companies.
Weisberg Kaufman, is assisting CBIA with education and training policy and with the implementation of the $1.2 million National Science Foundation ITEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) grant. ITEST addresses concerns about the growing demand for—and projected shortage of—workers with strong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills. The three-year grant enables CBIA and partner organizations to create “Cyberchallenge,” a series of industry-developed programs for students to learn how concepts and content learned in school apply to work and future careers.
She is also working on CBIA’s Project Opening Doors (POD) Campaign. Funded by the a National Math and Science Initiative, POD increases the number of Advanced Placement courses in math, English, and science and the number of minority and low-income students enrolled in those rigorous courses. And she continued to work on new grant opportunities for the Education Foundation.
In June 2009, Weisberg Kaufman retired as CBIA’s vice president and executive director of its Education Foundation. Prior to joining CBIA in 1983, Weisberg Kaufman was a senior associate at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Washington, D.C. At NIE, she monitored the Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance at Stanford University and supervised the school finance work of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Weisberg Kaufman came to NIE in 1977 as a policy fellow of the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C.
Weisberg Kaufman also spent five years as a project director on multi-national education studies with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France.
Weisberg Kaufman has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. She resides with her family in Farmington, CT.
Revised 11-09