She previously served as the executive director of the California State Board of Education and as education policy advisor to Governor Brown from 2011 to 2012. (ccee-ca.org)
Keynote speakers included Pedro Rivera, Pennsylvania secretary of education; Roberto Rodriguez, deputy assistant to the president for education at the White House; Judy Schneider, senior analyst at the Congressional Research Service; Carmel Martin, executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress; Lindsay Fryer, senior education policy advisor for the U.S. Senate HELP Committee; and Raul Gonzalez, senior program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (iel.org)
However, Ze'ev Wurman, former education policy advisor in the President George W. Bush education department, tells Breitbart News, «Such «pivoting» may be acceptable in the private market, where companies regularly «pivot» while abandoning previous strategies and the money they invested in them.» (breitbart.com)