David P. Hardy is the Co-Founder and retired CEO of Boys' Latin of Philadelphia charter school.  Boys' Latin, which opened in 2007 in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's first and only single-gender charter school has a student body that is 98% African-American and 74% economically disadvantaged.  Blending classical studies with contemporary pedagogy, the school offers rigorous coursework and an extensive selections extra-curricular activities including robotics, drama, entrepreneurship, mock trial, and 10 varsity sports.  In its first four graduating classes, Boys' Latin has sent 85% of graduates to post-secondary education-80% of which attending four-colleges.  Boys' Latin students matriculate into the finest colleges and universities in the nation including Pomona, Bowdoin, Carleton, Penn, U Va, and Penn State, as well as 13 of the 14 members of the State University System.  It added a middle school in 2013, increasing enrollment to 850 students to make it the largest 6-12 grades all-male school of any type in the region.  The schools has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on NBC with Megyn Kelly.

After retiring from Boys Latin in 2017, David Hardy served as Executive Director of Excellent Schools PA, a school choice advocacy organization. He also is the principal of a consulting practice, Parkway Educational Consultants.

Hardy currently serves on the boards of the Center for Education Reform, the Pennsylvania State Coalition of Public Charter Schools, Independence Mission Schools, and Ad Prima Charter School, which he chairs. He is member of the Steering Committee for the Freedom Coalition for Charter schools and the boards of the North Carolina Outward Bound School and Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center. Mr. Hardy was a founding board member of the Philadelphia Schools Partnership, and is a former board member of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO).

David Hardy lives in center city Philadelphia with his wife of 35 years, Zina Oliver-Hardy.  They have two adult sons.