{"id":71,"date":"2025-11-07T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:36:11","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/?page_id=71","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:38% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unknown-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unknown-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unknown-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unknown-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unknown-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/newcommonschoolfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unknown-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Clark Durant<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark Durant&nbsp;is President of the New Common School Foundation and Chair and CEO of the Cornerstone Education Group. In 1991, he               co-founded the Cornerstone Schools in Detroit. As President of the Michigan State Board of Education in 1994, he led the adoption of a Vision, Philosophy, and Mission statement that strengthened standards, accountability, character formation, and charter school development. In 2022, he founded Notre Dame de D\u00e9troit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Durant previously served as Vice President of Hillsdale College, where he co-founded&nbsp;<em>Imprimis<\/em> and the Center for Constructive Alternatives.&nbsp;He headed up an agency in Washington for President Reagan and, with a good team, saved a railroad in Michigan at the request of the Transportation Secretary. &nbsp;A Tulane and Notre Dame Law School graduate, he taught in the undergraduate school. For seven years, he represented those who could not afford a lawyer. A Winston Churchill Fellow and Michiganian of the Year, he has received the Millennium Candler Justice Prize, Black Family Development\u2019s Dr. Gerald R. Smith Humanitarian Award, and the Ernst &amp; Young Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award. He briefly served as an officer in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He and his wife, Susan, have been married for 52 years. They have four children and seven grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Durant Clark Durant&nbsp;is President of the New Common School Foundation and Chair and CEO of the Cornerstone Education Group. In 1991, he co-founded the Cornerstone Schools in Detroit. 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