Jeanne Allen is the Founder and President of the Center for Education Reform (CER), a Washington, DC based organization driving the creation of better educational opportunities for all children by leading parents, policymakers and the media in boldly advocating for school choice, advancing the charter school movement, and challenging the education establishment.

Co-author of "The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools" (1995), Jeanne is recognized as one of the country's leading education experts. She appears frequently on national television and radio programs, and can often be found in the pages of the nation's most influential newspapers and magazines.

Jeanne is the mother of four school-age children, Johnny, Teddy, Anthony, and Mary Monica and is married to Dr. Kevin L. Strother.

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The Center for Education Reform salutes all those folks beyond the Beltway who have written laws on the back of a napkin, worked tirelessly to persuade lawmakers to pass those laws, created schools, written standards, and generally challenged the conventional wisdom in the interest of making schools work better for all children. These are YOUR Action Heroes, and here are their stories.

January 2007


Action Hero: Fred Crawford

Fred Crawford is the principal of Greenville Technical Charter High School and has worked hard to hire the best teachers and staff to work with students. As a result, his team has turned the school into one of the best in South Carolina and in the nation. GTCHS has some of the highest test scores in the state and has been named one of the 15 Best Charter Schools by the U.S. Department of Education. Additionally, Mr. Crawford is working with community leaders, educators and parents to plan new charter schools to be located on community college campuses in the Greenville Area.


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