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Campaign 2008 Education Advisers

Ohanian Comment: Frankly, I don't have the energy or the hope to comment. I enter this information "for the record." Read info about these people that I've posted over the years on many of these people and you'll see why I'm so dispirited. Read the Education Week article that goes with this info and you'll see why I'm so dispirited.

Campaign 2008 Education Advisers For Sen. John McCain

F. Philip Handy--Served as chairman of the Florida state board of education from 2001 to 2007. He supported the state's performance-pay program and helped champion changes leading to a more seamless, K-20 education system.

Lisa Graham Keegan--As Arizona's superintendent of public instruction from 1995 to 2001, she was an outspoken proponent of school choice, tough academic standards, and state testing. Later, she was chief executive officer of the Education Leaders Council, a coalition of conservative-leaning education officials. She also advised Sen. McCain's 2000 presidential campaign.

Jane Swift--As acting governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003, she supported rigorous standards and high-stakes tests. She later served as a partner in Arcadia Partners, a venture-capital firm that invests in for-profit educational companies.

Virginia Walden-Ford--As the executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice, she has helped advocate for the federally funded voucher program that allows parents in the nation's capital to send their children to private schools, including religious schools.

Campaign 2008 Education Advisers For Sen. Barack Obama

Christopher F. Edley-- Dean of the University of California, Berkeley, law school since 2004. He served as a special counsel to President Clinton, working on affirmative action issues, and was a member of the Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind, which issued 75 recommendations for overhauling the federal education law. Those included tying teacher quality to student-achievement data and calling on the National Assessement Governing Board to craft voluntary national standards and tests.

Mike Johnston--The principal of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts in Thornton, Colo., and a co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools. Sen. Obama visited the school in May to deliver a major speech on education policy.

Jon Schnur--Chief executive and co-founder in 2000 of New Leaders for New Schools, a New York Citybased nonprofit group that trains educators to serve as principals of struggling schools in high-need districts. He served as an education adviser to Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.

Linda Darling-Hammond--An education professor at Stanford University who has focused on leadership training and teacherquality issues. She is an advocate for teacher residencies, which combine education courses with beefed-up field experiences.

SOURCE: Education Week

— staff
Education Week
2008-08-12


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