Idaho state Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra has hired a new policy liaison to replace former state Sen. Tim Corder, who left her office abruptly over the winter: Duncan Robb, who is currently engagement manager for the Education Delivery Institute, known as EDI, in Washington, D.C. Robb, who will start July 1 at an annual salary of $100,000, will “focus on supporting the superintendent in policy matters as well as being a department representative working collaboratively with Idaho legislators,” Ybarra announced in a news release.

At EDI, Robb has worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers to provide capacity-building support to state education heads and their agencies, and worked on numerous projects involving data and education priorities for university systems around the country. A former 6^th grade math teacher in Texas as a “Teach for America” corps member, Robb has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in public policy from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies.