Robin Lake, Paul Hill, & Lydia Rainey

Robin Lake is director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education. CRPE’s mission is to develop transformative, evidence-based solutions for K–12 public education. Her research focuses on U.S. public school system reforms, including public school choice and charter schools; innovation and scale; portfolio management; and effective state and local public oversight practices. Paul T. Hill is the founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Washington Bothell. His current work focuses on re-missioning states and school districts to promote school performance; school choice and innovation; finance and productivity; and improving rural schools. Lydia Rainey is a principal at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, where her research focuses on ways to design and implement equitable and innovative school systems, with attention to ways to disrupt our current systems’ preference for the status quo. Her recent research has focused on how educational leaders in state agencies, central offices, and schools lead the design and implementation of new policies and practices that call for deep changes in how their school system educates students. She approaches this work using traditional qualitative, quantitative, and design-based techniques.