Posted on May 9, 2008 at 5:35 pm by The Education Gadfly
McCain’s education team
Were you wondering who’s advising the presumptive GOP presidential candidate on education? We were. Now we know. And a pretty distinguished, if slightly predictable, group it is. (No, nobody at this address is part of it. And not a college president, local superintendent, or union goon on the list. Whew.)
In no particular order:
- Phil Handy, former chairman, Florida State Board of Education;
- Lisa Graham Keegan, former Arizona state superintendent;
- Virginia Walden Ford, executive director, D.C. Parents for School Choice;
- Townsend McNitt, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Education;
- Frank Riggs, former member of Congress and president, Charter Schools Development Corporation;
- Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts;
- Bill Hansen, former deputy secretary of education and senior managing director, Chartwell Education Group;
- Hannah Skandera, former California undersecretary of education;
- Gene Hickok, former U.S. undersecretary of education and senior policy director, Dutko Worldwide;
- Williamson Evers, Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
Their shepherd is former McCain staffer David Crane, now with Quadrapoint Strategies. Now you know, too.
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May 10th, 2008 at 2:01 am
I understand why you wouldn’t want a “union goon” advising him, but why do college presidents and local superintendents make bad advisers?