Lisa Graham Keegan

Lisa Keegan
17th Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction
In office
January 2, 1995 – May 2001
GovernorJane Dee Hull
Preceded byC. Diane Bishop
Succeeded byJaime Molera
Personal details
Born (1959-07-20) July 20, 1959 (age 65)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationStanford University (BA)
Arizona State University, Tempe (MS)

Lisa Graham Keegan (born July 20, 1959) is an American education reform advocate and the author of the parenting book Simple Choices.[1]

She is the principal partner of the Keegan Company, an education policy consulting firm[2][3] and the executive director of "A for Arizona," an. organization promoting a "shift (of) efforts toward studying schools that, despite being low income, are certainly on the high end of success."[4]

She served as Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction and as a senior policy advisor on education to Senator John McCain's presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2008.[5][6] At the 2008 National Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota she was a vice chairman of the Republican Party political platform committee, for which she wrote policy statements on education issues.[7]

Simple Choices begins with Lisa Graham Keegan's memoir of building a family through divorce, abandonment, adoption, mental impairment, sexual identity and all the challenges life has to offer. Rather than weakening the family, Keegan shows how these trials can help build a stronger family bond. The book concludes with advice on how to nurture children to lead a life of service.[8]

Keegan has advocated for comprehensive education reform, including emphasis on standardized testing, school choice methods such as school vouchers, tuition tax credits, charter schools, and open enrollment. Political leaders for whom she has worked included several governors including Jeb Bush of Florida, Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Jan Brewer and Doug Ducey of Arizona, and Chris Christie of New Jersey, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.[9] After the 2014 election she was appointed as education co-chair of Arizona Governor-elect Doug Ducey's transition team.[10][11]

  1. ^ "Simple Choices".
  2. ^ "Lisa Graham Keegan". National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA). Archived from the original on September 13, 2017.
  3. ^ "The Keegan Company".
  4. ^ "Group: Put focus on successful Arizona schools". Yuma Sun.
  5. ^ "Congressional Quarterly: McCain's Policy Team, September 1, 2008". Retrieved September 6, 2008.
  6. ^ "A McCain team could include some Arizonans, Possibilities: Kyl, Keegan, Peters, Woods". Retrieved February 19, 2008.
  7. ^ "2008 Republican Platform" (PDF). Retrieved September 6, 2008.
  8. ^ Keegan, Lisa Graham (April 2013). Simple Choices: Lisa Graham Keegan: 9780988745100: Amazon.com: Books. Keegan Company. ISBN 978-0-9887451-0-0.
  9. ^ "Governor Jan Brewer Appoints Chair of "Governor's P-20 Coordinating Council of Arizona"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 2, 2009. Retrieved September 2, 2009.
  10. ^ "Industrial equipment, services - www.2015azgtc.com". Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  11. ^ "Governor Ducey Launches AZ OnTrack Summer Camp". March 2, 2022.