NR: [The Board's] charge really has been to give the Alliance a more
prominent place in terms of advocacy
at the federal level, to have a seat
at the
table when people are talking about legislation and regulations that impact charter schools, and to also be present when the media is talking about the topic... If the past twenty years have been about growth, the next twenty need to be about taking some of the lessons of the past twenty, so that we continue growing but that we're not making the same mistakes we have in the past.