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title: Founder Bill Kurtz reflects on 20 years leading the DSST school network
description: "News: Bill recently sat down with Central Park Education News to \"talk about his groundbreaking career overseeing an innovative model that strives to educate well an economically and racially diverse student population.\""
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# [Founder Bill Kurtz reflects on 20 years leading the DSST school network](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/founder-bill-kurtz-reflects-on-20-years-leading-the-dsst-school-network)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 04/26/24

Bill recently sat down with Central Park Education News to "talk about his groundbreaking career overseeing an innovative model that strives to educate well an economically and racially diverse student population."

The Q&A will run in two parts. In part one, he talked about going from Wall Street to running schools, and how DSST began and evolved and its core values-driven culture.

In part two, he covered equity, career/tech ed vs. college, what DSST has meant to Central Park, what he’s most proud of and what he may do next.

Check out [part one here](https://cpednews.org/founder-bill-kurtz-reflects-on-20-years-leading-dsst/) and [part two here](https://cpednews.org/part-two-dsst-founder-bill-kurtz-talks-about-equity-career-tech-vs-college-school-reform-and-what-dsst-has-meant-to-central-park/).

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