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Lisa Snell is the director of education and child welfare at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Snell has frequently testified before the California State Legislature and numerous other state legislatures and government agencies. She has authored policy studies on school finance and weighted student funding, universal preschool, school violence, charter schools, and child advocacy centers.
Snell is a frequent contributor to Reason magazine, School Reform News and Privatization Watch. Her writing has also appeared in Education Week, Edutopia, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications.
Ms. Snell is also an advisory board member to the National Quality Improvement Center for the Children’s Bureau; is on the charter school accreditation team for the American Academy for Liberal Education; and serves as a board member for the California Virtual Academy.
Before joining Reason Foundation, Snell taught public speaking and argumentation courses at California State University, Fullerton. She earned a Master of Arts in communication from California State University, Fullerton.
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- More Milwaukee Voucher Students Graduate
Lisa Snell
February 2, 2010, 4:52pm - Obama's Higher Education Budget and Exaggerated Lifetime Earnings From College Completion
Lisa Snell
February 2, 2010, 4:06pm - No Child Left Behind R.I.P.: A Balloon Payment that will Never Come Due
Lisa Snell
February 1, 2010, 4:27pm - Superintendent Paul Pastorek on Charters and Turning Around Low-Peforming Schools
Lisa Snell
January 29, 2010, 4:34pm - California Teachers $43 Billion Pension Fund Shortfall and Golden Handcuffs
Lisa Snell
January 29, 2010, 2:42pm - Lifting All Boats in Louisiana: A Vision for Transforming Louisiana's Education System
Interview with Paul Pastorek, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education
Lisa Snell
January 29, 2010 - Domestic Spending Freeze Fail: New Budget Includes a 6.2 Percent Increase in the Education Budget
Lisa Snell
January 27, 2010, 12:20pm - Head Start Fail: Federal Preschool Program Does Not Give Kids Leg Up
Lisa Snell
January 15, 2010, 2:58pm - Teacher Cuts Off Student's Braid; Union Blames Budget Constraints
Lisa Snell
December 15, 2009, 1:38pm - Help! DC School Voucher Program On the Brink . . .
Lisa Snell
December 11, 2009, 4:35pm - Louisiana School Choice News
Lisa Snell
December 4, 2009, 3:41pm - For Real Equity: Give Schools the Money Instead of Staffing Positions
Lisa Snell
November 13, 2009, 12:18pm - Preschool Hype: National Security Edition
Lisa Snell
November 2, 2009, 2:05pm - Ayn Rand Preschool Action with Barack Obama, Preschool Advocates as Comprachicos, and "Maggie Roark" Standing Alone Against the Daycare Worker of Her Time...
Lisa Snell
November 2, 2009, 12:39pm - In Honor of Ayn Rand's Long Legacy: Rand on Tax Credits for Education
Lisa Snell
November 2, 2009, 12:14pm - Tennessee's Gold-Standard Preschool Not Effective After 2nd Grade
Lisa Snell
November 1, 2009, 11:44pm - My So-Called Stimulus Job: Higher Education Edition
Lisa Snell
November 1, 2009, 10:58pm - Lower Standards in Schools: Preschool Edition
Lisa Snell
October 30, 2009, 3:23pm - Reconsidering Seniority-Based Layoffs: Los Angeles Teach For America Edition
Lisa Snell
October 28, 2009, 1:59pm - Record Charter School Enrollment Growth in California
Lisa Snell
October 28, 2009, 1:17pm - Hawaii Teacher Furlough Follies: A Test Case for a Longer School Year?
Lisa Snell
October 23, 2009, 1:48pm - More on the Higher Education Bubble
Lisa Snell
October 23, 2009, 1:10pm - What the Privatized Education Sector Looks Like
Lisa Snell
October 22, 2009, 12:27am - "Money Following the Child" Working in Baltimore
Lisa Snell
October 21, 2009, 11:49pm - California Must Do More than Link Teacher Performance and Test Scores
Lisa Snell
October 13, 2009, 12:36pm - What Do School Districts and the Post Office have in Common?
Lisa Snell
October 7, 2009, 10:11pm - Federal Education Stimulus Funds "Supplant Not Supplement" State Education Funding
Lisa Snell
October 7, 2009, 9:46pm - Education Funding Lawsuit Unlikely to Improve Education Outcomes in California
Lisa Snell
October 6, 2009, 2:14pm - R.I.P. Bake Sales and More on Schools as Grim, Joyless Places
Lisa Snell
October 5, 2009, 4:06pm - "Stand and Deliver" High School First to be Bid to Outside Operaters in LA Unified
Lisa Snell
September 25, 2009, 3:59pm - Denver School Closures Improve Outcomes for Students
Lisa Snell
September 24, 2009, 4:00pm - Millions More Wasted in Detroit Schools: Real Estate Edition
Lisa Snell
September 24, 2009, 3:33pm - Los Angeles School Competition Update
Lisa Snell
September 16, 2009, 11:07am - In New Orleans School Choice and Autonomy Drive School Improvement
Lisa Snell
September 16, 2009, 10:33am - Parents Like Charter Schools: 2009 School Year Edition
Lisa Snell
September 14, 2009, 12:43pm - Los Angeles Charter School Competition: School for the Arts Smackdown Edition
Lisa Snell
September 11, 2009, 11:49am - Education Spending Versus Productivity
Lisa Snell
September 9, 2009, 2:40pm - Best Rebuttal to President's Education Speech from the Onion
Lisa Snell
September 8, 2009, 4:48pm - President Obama's Speech and Civil Disobedience for School Choice
Lisa Snell
September 8, 2009, 1:11pm - D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's School Choice
Lisa Snell
August 27, 2009, 6:32pm - Teachers Unions Object to Obama's Education Agenda; Invest in Obama's Healthcare Plans Instead
Lisa Snell
August 27, 2009, 4:58pm - School Choice and More in Los Angeles
Lisa Snell
August 27, 2009, 4:33pm - Gov. Schwarzenegger Has Chance to Tie Teachers to Student Performance and Push Charters
Lisa Snell
August 24, 2009, 4:37pm - Obama's Race to the Top May Help Spur Much-Needed Education Reforms
Schwarzenegger has opportunity to improve teacher performance and increase use of charter schools
Lisa Snell
August 24, 2009 - Los Angeles Unified School Competition Round-Up
Lisa Snell
August 24, 2009, 12:49pm - Governor Schwarzenegger Calls For Education Overhaul in Special Legislative Session
Lisa Snell
August 21, 2009, 11:50am - D.C. Parents' Questions for the Obama Administration on DC Voucher Program
Lisa Snell
August 21, 2009, 11:23am - Special Education Vouchers Reduce Special Education Label
Lisa Snell
August 21, 2009, 11:02am - Rose Friedman, R.I.P.--The Friedmans Left Families a Real School Choice Legacy
Lisa Snell
August 19, 2009, 2:00am - An Argument for School-Level Budget Transparency: New Mexico Edition
Lisa Snell
August 17, 2009, 1:08pm
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