In 2004, after realizing that the Charter School Leadership Council, a loose coalition of pro-charter school organizations, couldn’t meet the needs of the burgeoning charter school sector, a number of the nation’s top charter leaders created the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools...Over the next five years, the leader they selected, Nelson Smith, built the Alliance into a trusted resource for research and assistance and a formidable force on advocacy...It is this legacy that Smith will leave behind; today, he announced he is stepping down as President and CEO....Read it here.
