By Kevin McCauley
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has hired Gina Mahony as its senior VP for federal affairs.
The 11-year veteran of Capitol Hill was senior policy advisor for former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland. She played a role in the Charter School Expansion Act of 1998.
Most recently, Mahony was policy director at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, working the Congress on behalf of companies, coalitions and associations.
The Alliance is headed by Nina Rees, a former Dept. of Education staffer, who helped roll out the President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act.
She also was senior education analyst at the Heritage Foundation and domestic policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Alliance counts 5,600 charter schools with an enrollment of 2M. It claims 600K students are on waiting lists.
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