Straight Up Conversation: New National Charter Alliance Chief Nina Rees
by Frederick M. Hess • Jul 2, 2012 at 8:36 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
Cross-posted from Education Week
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ShareNina Rees has just been named the new president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the national organization of the country's charter schools. As of August 20, she'll take the reins from interim president Ursula Wright, who has impressively filled the job for nearly a year. Nina served in the Bush administration as the first Assistant Secretary for Innovation and Improvement (the job currently held by Jim Shelton), and has worked for the last several years as a senior vice president at Knowledge Universe. Given Nina's new role, and the current tumult around charter schooling, I thought it timely to sit down and chat with her about the gig.
Rick Hess: What was appealing about the job?
Nina Rees: My background has been in the area of parental choice. This is the space that I know the most about and the area that I've studied and worked on over my career, starting from a public interest law firm experience at the Institute for Justice, [then] the Heritage Foundation, the White House, and the U.S.
Nina Rees: My background has been in the area of parental choice. This is the space that I know the most about and the area that I've studied and worked on over my career, starting from a public interest law firm experience at the Institute for Justice, [then] the Heritage Foundation, the White House, and the U.S.
