New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Commission on Public Elementary and Middle Schools (CPEMS)

Staff/Contact Information

 David L. Flynn, Ph.D.

Director of the Commission
dflynn@neasc.org
781-541-5426
 
During the thirteen years of this directorship, David has worked with elementary and middle schools throughout the six state region as well as international schools in a wide range of overseas countries. David has also served the Massachusetts educational community for 30 years as a teacher of English, assistant principal and principal in Framingham, Mendon-Upton, Bellingham and Marlborough and school superintendent for thirteen years in the city of Marlborough. David received his BS in Ed. from Salem State College, his M.A. from Framingham State College and his Ph.D. from Boston College.
 
Janet Allison
Deputy Director of the Commission
jallison@neasc.org
781-541-5418
 
Janet has worked at NEASC for more than twenty years as an associate director for the Commission on Public Secondary Schools. In addition to that work, she serves as the Deputy Director for Middle Level Schools with the Commission on Public Elementary and Middle Schools.  Previous to her work at NEASC, Janet was a social studies teacher and an assistant principal in New Hampshire and Georgia public high schools. She earned her Masters of Education in Administration from Northeastern University and her BA from the University of New Hampshire.
 
Cheryl Donoghue
Executive Assistant to the Director
cdonoghue@neasc.org
781-541-5424
 
Cheryl has been employed by NEASC since 1996 first serving in the capacity of committee coordinator for the Commission on Public Secondary Schools then being promoted to Assistant to the Director for the Commission on Public Elementary and Middle Schools in 2005. Previously, for twenty-three years she was employed by the New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn, MA servicing the hospital as a licensed practical nurse from 1973-1978 then becoming the office manager of the Nursing Education Department. Cheryl received her nursing diploma from Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, MA in 1972.