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Richard Stombres

Director, Govt. Relations

Rich Stombres serves as Director, Government Relations, at Van Scoyoc Associates Inc. with specialties related to the firm’s education area. As former Deputy Director of Education and Human Services Policy, House Committee on Education and Workforce, he managed professional and legislative staff in the drafting and negotiation of education and human services policy legislation. He also supervised legislative activities related to Committee programs including early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, job training, older Americans, and teacher quality.

He served as Committee professional staff member responsible for rural, homeless, math and science, and civic education-related issues and for programs under the Fund for the Improvement of Education in the No Child Left Behind Act.  He has worked on national testing, charter school, and school choice legislative issues. Prior to this, Mr. Stombres worked for the House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.

A member of the 80th Training Division, U.S. Army Reserve from 1989 to 1997, Mr. Stombres graduated from the U.S. Army Reserve Drill Sergeant School, 80th Division Leadership Academy in Dublin, Va., in 1990 and was awarded the Army Achievement Medal as an outstanding drill sergeant during his unit’s 1994 annual training in Fort Jackson, S.C. Mr. Stombres is a 1995 honor graduate of the U.S. Army Reserve Primary Leadership Development Course at Fort Dix, N.J., and a 1996 graduate of the U.S. Army Reserve Military Police School at Fort Dix.

Mr. Stombres was awarded a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, with a concentration in International Affairs, from Georgetown University in 2002. In 1996, he received the Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Studies from the University of the State of New York, Regents College. Mr. Stombres is a native of Washington, D.C.