Lisa Snell was 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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School Choice Programs Tighten Accountability
Overregulation could hurt growth
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Restructuring California’s School Finance System
State should use weighted student formula
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Analyzing the CA Education Budget
Structural reform needed
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Reducing Class Sizes Achieves Mixed Results
Studies question effectiveness
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Teacher Unions Crush Philanthropy and Volunteerism
Michigan rejects $200 million
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Schools Improve When Principals Can Be Entreprenuers
Local control improves results
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Charter Schools Improve Achievement, Despite Resistance
Charters face more hurdles than public schools
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Will Schwarzenegger Support School Choice?
Arnold will likely follow Bush's model
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Child Advocacy Centers Helping Solve Abuse Problems
Daniel Soto case highlights need for change
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Child Advocacy Centers
One Stop on the Road to Performance-based Child Protection
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Citizens’ Budget
How to Balance CA Budget without Tax Increases
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Why Are Unions Trying to Kill Charter Schools?
A sad charter story
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LAUSD Should Let Builders Build Schools
School construction boondoggles common in CA
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Edison Charter Soars in San Francisco
Real accountability, real results
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Resisting Meaningful School Choice
Baltimore offers 194 transfer spots for 30,000 kids
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School Choice vs. Privatization
What is the difference?
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Education Management Organizations
Growing a For-profit Education Industry with Choice, Competition, and Innovation
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The Arizona Tax-Credit Program Paradox
Successful example of a school-choice initiative