President
Tugboat Education Services
Paul T. O'Neill is an attorney who focuses his practice and scholarship on education law. Currently, he is Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President of Edison Schools, headquartered in New York City, NY. Before joining Edision he was Of Counsel to Brustein & Manasevit, the Washington D.C.-based education law firm. For several years, Mr. O'Neill served as General Counsel of the Charter Schools Institute of the State University of New York, one of the leading charter authorizers in the nation, and was a founding board member of a charter school in New York City's South Bronx.
He serves on the adjunct faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches education and special education law. Mr. O'Neill received a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Teachers College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
He is a former Associate Director of the Newgrange School and Educational Outreach Center in New Jersey, which serves individuals with learning disabilities, and has been a litigator with the New York offices of both Dewey Ballantine LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Mr. O'Neill is the author of numerous scholarly publications, and lectures nationally on a wide range of education law topics.
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