Rees Leaves Innovation Office for Job in the Private Sector

The head of the Department of Education’s office of innovation and improvement left last week for a job in the private sector.

Nina Shokraii Rees, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and a former education analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said she would go to work for Knowledge Universe Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based education investment company, as its vice president of strategic initiatives, starting Jan. 30.

Ms. Rees will be working in the Washington office of the company, which was formed in 1996 by the former junk-bond financier Michael...