Arizona Chief Quits To Head Education Leaders Council
Lisa Graham Keegan, Arizona's high-profile schools chief, is leaving her post there to head the Education Leaders Council in Washington, a move supporters hope will launch the group into greater prominence.
Ms. Keegan, a Republican, has served six years as state superintendent of public instruction in Arizona, where she has been an outspoken proponent of tough standards and state testing for schools, more education funding, and parental choice. Her resignation, announced last week, will take effect May 11.
"This is not a decision I have come to lightly, but one I feel will be best for the state and for the continuing advance of education reform," she said in a statement. "What I will be doing for ELC will not be that different from what I...
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