David Krulwich

David Krulwich is principal of the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science (AMS) in the Bronx, New York. At AMS, he leads a highly successful, non-screened, public school serving over 600 students in grades 6–12 in one of the lowest-income communities in the United States. The school has a historical graduation rate of 90 percent, the vast majority of whom continue on to college after graduation.

Krulwich began his career as a litigation attorney at a law firm in New York City. In 2001, he became a 7th grade mathematics teacher at a public middle school in the South Bronx. In 2005, he joined AMS, and became principal in 2012. Krulwich graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in history, earned a JD from Columbia University Law School, and earned master's degrees at the City College of New York (MEd, secondary mathematics) and Bank Street College (MEd, school leadership).

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