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The Office of Innovation and Improvement is a nimble, entrepreneurial arm of the U.S. Department of Education. It makes strategic investments in innovative educational practices through two dozen discretionary grant programs and coordinates the public school choice and supplemental educational services provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by No Child Left Behind. It also serves as the Department's liaison and resource to the nonpublic education community through the Office of Non-Public Education. Through the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship initiative which empowers teacher leaders from our nation's public schools to contribute their knowledge and experience to the national dialogue about public education. The Office helps to develop guidance on provisions and programs related to its work under No Child Left Behind. OII also created the Innovations in Education guides which details how school systems around the country have put the No Child Left Behind Act to work.

The Office of Innovation and Improvement is headed by Assistant Deputy Secretary Doug Mesecar.