John K. DiPaolo is Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education, with responsibility for postsecondary matters. He joined the Department in 2011, originally serving in the Office for Civil Rights as Chief of Staff and later Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy. Mr. DiPaolo has worked in education law, policy and leadership for most of his career. Before coming to the Department, he was a senior fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law where he worked on education litigation and policy issues. Earlier, he directed a university-school partnership in Philadelphia, led the work of a five-college consortium in creating of a public arts high school and directed policy reform at the local education fund in Boston; and managed a foundation overseeing charter schools and served in the general counsel's office of an educational services company in New York City. He has also practiced corporate law at a private firm and taught math at a public high school in Boston. Mr. DiPaolo received his bachelor's degree with high honors from Wesleyan University, where he was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. Mr. DiPaolo enjoys riding his bike to and from work, swimming, listening to classical music and, with his wife and daughter, eating in the backyard.