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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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- Lessons for Gov. Brown’s California School Finance Plan
The governor's education reforms are good steps, but need to go further
Lisa Snell
May 15, 2013 - School Choice Performance in 2012
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Education
Katie Furtick and Lisa Snell
April 29, 2013 - Weighted Student Formula in the States
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Education
Lisa Snell
April 29, 2013 - Annual Privatization Report 2013: Education
Education chapter of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2013
Katie Furtick and Lisa Snell
April 29, 2013 - Developments in State Government Privatization
Annual Privatization Report 2013 examines privatization trends at the state level
Leonard Gilroy and Lisa Snell
April 22, 2013 - Child Welfare Privatization Update
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: State Government Privatization
Lisa Snell
April 22, 2013 - A Handbook for Student-Based Budgeting, Principal Autonomy and School Choice
Making school funding more equitable and transparent
Lisa Snell
March 5, 2013 - Utah Needs "Backpack" Funding
Lisa Snell
March 4, 2013, 1:27pm - How the War Between Proposition 30 and Proposition 38 Makes the Case for Proposition 32
Lisa Snell
November 1, 2012, 2:54pm - UC Salaries and Administrators Grow Rapidly Despite Huge Budget Shortfalls
Lisa Snell
September 11, 2012, 10:58am - California Legislature Mandates that "Public Service" Be Required for University Tenure
Lisa Snell
September 6, 2012, 2:53pm - What has "Doomsday" Education Spending in California Wrought: Higher Graduation Rates and Test Scores
Lisa Snell
June 29, 2012, 12:05pm - Why the GAO Study on Special Education in Charter Schools Gets It Wrong
Lisa Snell
June 20, 2012, 2:36pm - With School Choice Everyone Wins: Including Kids Taking Care of Their Sick Mothers.
Lisa Snell
June 14, 2012, 2:49pm - Teacher Pension and Healthcare Reform Extends to Michigan
Lisa Snell
June 14, 2012, 1:12pm - Chicago Teaches 30 Percent Raise or STRIKE Ultimatum
Lisa Snell
June 13, 2012, 6:34pm - Federal Public School Food Police Fine Utah School $15k for Leaving Vending Machine Plugged in During Lunch.
Lisa Snell
May 17, 2012, 1:05pm - School Districts in Wisconsin Saved $30 million on Health Insurance Costs Since Collective Bargaining Relief
Lisa Snell
May 17, 2012, 12:35pm - Green Dot Charter Schools Raise Performance for Long-Suffering Locke High School
Lisa Snell
May 14, 2012, 4:10pm - 24 High-Performing Los Angeles Unified Schools Plan to Become Charter Schools
Lisa Snell
May 14, 2012, 3:35pm - Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in State Government
State Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Leonard Gilroy and Lisa Snell
May 1, 2012 - School Choice, Charter Schools, and Trends In Educational Privatization
Education Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Lisa Snell
May 1, 2012 - Philadelphia Schools to Follow New Orleans Market Education Lead Without a Hurricane?
Lisa Snell
April 25, 2012, 11:44am - New Orleans is Already Demonstrating What will be Possible When We Open Up School Markets
Lisa Snell
April 19, 2012, 1:44pm - Caine Monroy: The New Poster Child for School Choice in America
Lisa Snell
April 19, 2012, 1:29pm - New John Stossel Special: No They Can't! Why Government Fails But Individuals Succeed
Lisa Snell
April 6, 2012, 2:12pm - Why Condoleezza Rice, Joel Klein, and the Council on Foreign Relations are Wrong About Common Core and National Standards and Why these Standards will Stifle School Choice in America
Lisa Snell
March 23, 2012, 2:41pm - Is the U.S. School System a National Security Threat?
Why Condoleezza Rice, Joel Klein and the Council of Foreign Relations are wrong about common core and national standards
Lisa Snell
March 23, 2012 - In Louisiana the education money will REALLY follow the child.
Lisa Snell
February 28, 2012, 12:37pm - In Nebraska Child Welfare Reform Should Focus on Removing Fewer Children not Starting New State Agencies
Lisa Snell
February 9, 2012, 12:43pm - Taking Steps Towards Better Child Welfare Programs In Nebraska
The focus should be on the kids and outcomes, not reorganizing state agencies
Lisa Snell
February 8, 2012 - Join Reason Foundation for National School Choice Week 2012 in New Orleans on Saturday, January 21
Lisa Snell
January 11, 2012, 1:17pm - Charter Schools more like Vouchers: New Jersey Edition
Lisa Snell
November 16, 2011, 12:37pm - Charter School Market Share: D.C. Edition
Lisa Snell
November 7, 2011, 12:18pm - School District is Dead, Long Live the Schools: Oakland Edition
Lisa Snell
November 4, 2011, 12:57pm - A Sea Change for School Funding in America
Lisa Snell
October 21, 2011, 12:49pm - In Louisiana Student-Based Budgeting Logical Extension of Charter School Movement
Lisa Snell
October 21, 2011, 12:30pm - Universal Charter Schools in New Orleans
Lisa Snell
October 17, 2011, 12:46pm - Los Angeles Charters Pwned District Schools
Lisa Snell
September 2, 2011, 10:50am - Most Market-Oriented Education City in America Still Rocking Kids World
Lisa Snell
August 12, 2011, 3:03pm - Teacherapocalypse NOT: In California Less Education Spending Equals Higher Test Scores
Lisa Snell
August 8, 2011, 9:24pm - The Price Tag for Schools for the Deaf
Lisa Snell
August 1, 2011, 12:37pm - New Orleans: Most Market-Driven School District in Nation Increases Test Scores Again
Lisa Snell
May 26, 2011, 3:31pm - The Teacher Layoff Lie in California
Lisa Snell
May 26, 2011, 2:31pm - The Condition of Education 2011--WE SPEND A LOT
Lisa Snell
May 26, 2011, 1:16pm - California Provides the Case in Point Against National Curriculum
Lisa Snell
May 16, 2011, 2:17pm - School Choice, Charter Schools, and Trends In Educational Privatization
Education Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010
Lisa Snell and Leonard Gilroy
February 15, 2011 - Big Education and Big Labor Election Spending Round- Up
Lisa Snell
October 29, 2010, 3:33pm - Michelle Rhee's Legacy: Changing the Court of Public Opinion
Lisa Snell
October 13, 2010, 11:25am - Three Reasons Obama's Education Vision Fails
Lisa Snell
October 7, 2010, 1:35pm
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