Skip to main content

Mobile Navigation

  • National
    • Policy
      • High Expectations
      • Quality Choices
      • Personalized Pathways
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Gadfly Newsletter
      • Flypaper Blog
    • Events
    • Scholars Program
  • Ohio
    • Policy
      • Priorities
      • Media & Testimony
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Ohio Education Gadfly Biweekly
      • Ohio Gadfly Daily
  • Charter Authorizing
    • Application
    • Sponsored Schools
    • Resources
  • About
    • Mission
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Career
Home
Home
Advancing Educational Excellence

Main Navigation

  • National
  • Ohio
  • Charter Authorizing
  • About

National Menu

  • Topics
    • Accountability & Testing
    • Advanced Education
    • Career & Technical Education
    • Charter Schools
    • Curriculum & Instruction
    • ESSA
    • Evidence-Based Learning
    • Facilities
    • Governance
    • Personalized Learning
    • Private School Choice
    • School Finance
    • Standards
    • Teachers & School Leaders
    • Think Again
  • Research
  • Commentary
    • Gadfly Newsletter
    • Flypaper Blog
    • Gadfly Podcast
  • Events
  • Scholars Program
Flypaper

McCain's education team

5.9.2008

  • Phil Handy, former chairman, Florida State Board of Education;
  • Lisa Graham Keegan, former Arizona state superintendent;
  • Virginia Walden Ford, executive director, D.C. Parents for School Choice;
  • Townsend McNitt, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Education;
  • Frank Riggs, former member of Congress and president, Charter Schools Development Corporation;
  • Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts;
  • Bill Hansen, former deputy secretary of education and senior managing director, Chartwell Education Group;
  • Hannah Skandera, former California undersecretary of education;
  • Gene Hickok, former U.S. undersecretary of education and senior policy director, Dutko Worldwide;
  • Williamson Evers, Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
Their shepherd is former McCain staffer David Crane, now with Quadripoint Strategies. Now you know, too.

Photo by Flickr user soggydan.

Tags: California John McCain Lisa Graham Keegan Massachusetts United States Department of Education
Fordham Logo

© 2026 The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Privacy Policy
Usage Agreement

National

P.O. Box 110
Burke, VA 22009

202.223.5452

[email protected]

Ohio

P.O. Box 82291
Columbus, OH 43202

614.223.1580

[email protected]

Sponsorship

130 West Second Street, Suite 410
Dayton, Ohio 45402

937.227.3368

[email protected]