Charter Reformer

LISA Graham Keegan, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, is a petite 38-year-old with a big smile and an irreverent wit who enjoys horseplay with her two kids and scuba-diving off Key West. She is also a revolutionary, the most innovative education reformer in the country, pushing a policy agenda that could radically change the politics of education reform nationwide.

Mrs. Keegan has announced that if she wins election to a second term in 1998, she won’t take her constitutional oath unless the state adopts the most sweeping education reform in this century: putting an equal amount of education funding behind every child in the state, and letting families choose where to spend it. Or, as Mrs. Keegan puts it, “strapping the money to the child’s back and following her wherever she goes.”

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Clint Bolick

Clint Bolick is a justice on the Arizona supreme court. His opinions and articles can be found at azjustice44.com.

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LISA Graham Keegan, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, is a petite 38-year-old with a big smile and an irreverent wit who enjoys horseplay with her two kids and scuba-diving off Key West. She is also a revolutionary, the most innovative education reformer in the country, pushing a policy agenda that could radically change the politics of education reform nationwide.

Mrs. Keegan has announced that if she wins election to a second term in 1998, she won’t take her constitutional oath unless the state adopts the most sweeping education reform in this century: putting an equal amount of education funding behind every child in the state, and letting families choose where to spend it. Or, as Mrs. Keegan puts it, “strapping the money to the child’s back and following her wherever she goes.”