Dr. Jonathan Isler is an Administrator of the Office of Research Requests and Partnerships at the California Department of Education and has served in this role for over nine years. Dr. Isler has served as a co-PI with Professor Michal Kurlaender from the University of California, Davis on a five-year Institute of Education Sciences (IES) partnership grant to study college and career readiness and is currently co-PI with Dr. Niu Gao on an IES grant to study education recovery in California. Dr. Isler received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Davis and was formerly a Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Springfield.