Alan Safran

Alan Safran is Co-Founder and CEO of Saga. He has had a 32 year career in public education, at the state and local levels. He served 9 years at the Massachusetts Department of Education, including a period as the state's Deputy Commissioner of Education for Policy and Administration. He led the Match Charter Public School network in Boston for 9 years, where he was the co-designer of the school’s high dosage tutoring program, the first such model in the country (and helped coin the phrase “high dosage tutoring.”). He and AJ Gutierrez then incubated the dissemination of high dosage tutoring out of the Match School base, to Lawrence MA, Stamford CT, and Chicago, IL, and then, in 2014, founded the edtech nonprofit Saga. Alan has a law degree from George Washington University, a bachelor’s degree from Princeton, and he and his wife split their time between Boston, MA and Washington, DC. They have three grown children, in DC, NY and LA, and a mid-size, middle-aged black labrador, Colbie.