David Saleh Rauf is a contributing writer for EdWeek Market Brief, where he has written about a variety of topics, including education company finances, state education markets, and debates over curriculum. He previous wrote for Education Week’s technology team, focusing in part on school district technology purchasing during the pandemic. He has covered state politics for daily newspapers in Texas, with a focus on campaign finance, lobbying and ethics, and also wrote for Thomson Reuters in Washington D.C. and Politico Pro as a technology reporter. He got his start as a general assignment reporter at a small paper in the Texas Hill Country, and received his education at Texas State University and the University of Maryland with degrees in journalism.
