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Steve Barr is an American entrepreneur and education reformer. He is the founder of Green Dot Public Schools, a network of charter schools in Los Angeles, and co-founder of Rock the Vote, a non-profit organization that encourages young people to register and vote. He is also the founder of Future is Now, a non-profit organization that works to improve public education in the United States. Barr was born in 1960 in San Mateo, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree in political science. After college, he worked as a legislative aide in the California State Assembly. In 1993, Barr co-founded Rock the Vote, a non-profit organization that encourages young people to register and vote. The organization has registered millions of young voters and has been credited with helping to increase youth voter turnout in the United States. In 1999, Barr founded Green Dot Public Schools, a network of charter schools in Los Angeles. The organization has grown to become one of the largest charter school networks in the United States, serving over 20,000 students. In 2010, Barr founded Future is Now, a non-profit organization that works to improve public education in the United States. The organization works to increase access to quality education, improve teacher quality, and increase student achievement. Barr is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute. He has been recognized for his work in education reform, receiving the National Education Association's Friend of Education Award in 2009 and the California Charter Schools Association's Charter School Leader of the Year Award in 2011.

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2016

On June 27, 2016, Barr announced his candidacy for the 2017 Los Angeles mayoral election, challenging incumbent mayor Eric Garcetti. On his campaign's website, Barr wrote:

2000

As a result, Barr founded his flagship organization, Green Dot Public Schools, and opened his first charter high school, Animo Leadership High School in Lennox, California in 2000. He later opened subsequent schools, including Animo Inglewood in 2002 and Animo Oscar De La Hoya in Boyle Heights in 2004. By the end of Barr's involvement at Green Dot, his organization was operating 20 public schools under his auspice. He left Green Dot in 2009.

1997

Barr was influenced by meeting Reed Hastings, education activist and founder of Netflix, and Don Shalvey, the founder of California's first charter school, the San Carlos Learning Center, in Northern California. At an event in 1997, President Bill Clinton announced a federally funded public charter school-grant program.

1990

In 1990, Barr co-founded Rock the Vote, a national campaign to boost youth voter turnout and engage young people in the democratic process.

1984

After receiving his degree, Barr was hired to organize events for the 1984 Summer Olympics Torch Relay. He recounts this period of his life in his memoir The Flame: An Unlikely Patriot Finds a Country to Love. That year, he joined the national staff of then-Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign. In the next presidential cycle in 1988, he worked for Governor Michael Dukakis' campaign. During this time, Barr also served as the finance chairman for the California Democratic Party.

1980

Barr worked on the presidential campaigns of two Democratic Party candidates in the 1980s and served as Finance Chairman of the California Democratic Party. After having worked on school reform for many years, in June 2016 Steve Barr announced his candidacy for the 2017 Los Angeles mayoral election, challenging incumbent mayor Eric Garcetti. Garcetti won with an overwhelming majority.

1973

Barr spent his early childhood in Monterey, California, where his mother worked as a dental assistant and as a cocktail waitress. When he was six, Barr and his younger brother were placed in foster care for a year. In 1973, the family moved to Cupertino, California where he and his brother attended Cupertino High School. At Cupertino High, Barr played on the basketball team and was elected student body president.

1959

Steve Barr (born July 25, 1959) is an educator, political activist, and author, best known as a co-founder of Rock the Vote and founder of Green Dot Public Schools, a charter school organization in Los Angeles, California. He led Green Dot from 2000 to 2009. Barr also founded Future is Now Schools, a non-profit school organization that works on reforming schools from within.

Steve Barr was born in San Mateo, California in 1959. His father left the family when Barr was two years old. Barr and his younger brother were raised by a single mother.