Margaret Chung

Margaret Chung is the Principal of the Arlington Career Center (ACC), the Career and Technical Education (CTE) hub of Arlington Public Schools (APS) in Arlington, Virginia. She served as a public schools educator in Virginia and Arizona for the past 29 years as a secondary mathematics teacher, instructional coach and advocate for refugee students as the Director of Asian Pacific American Student Services for Tucson Unified School District. She served as the Mathematics Supervisor for APS before becoming Principal of Arlington Career Center in 2014.

As principal of ACC, she oversees 30 CTE programs, four full-time academic programs and the Teen Parenting Program. In 2016 she led a team to develop Arlington Tech, an innovative Early College, STEM, project and work based learning program to meet the rapidly-changing demands of the global workforce. In partnership with Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC), ACC offers over 50 dual enrollment CTE and academic courses through which students earn both high school and college credits. In the graduating class of 2021, ACC’s 100 graduates earned over 1,900 dual enrollment college credits. 14 of the Arlington Tech graduates earned the General Education Certificate and 7 of those students earned an Associates of Science Degree in Computer Science.

Ms. Chung is a firm believer in robust and strategic partnerships with community colleges and industry. Taking dual enrollment courses creates opportunities for students to be in college while in high school. At ACC internships in local industry, businesses and post-secondary institutions empower students to learn and experience industry standard skills and expectations which inform them in choosing their future path.

She is a beneficiary of NVCC as a former student and mother of a former student. She received her BA in Mathematics from George Mason University and her MEd in Educational Leadership from the University of Arizona.