CBLPI Staff - Lil Tuttle

Education Director

ltuttle@cblpi.org

A wife and mother of three, Lil Tuttle became an education activist in the early 1990s and founded Academics First, a local grass-roots organization dedicated to raising academic rigor of local public schools.

Lil served on the Governor's Champion Schools Commission in 1994. In 1995, she was appointed by Gov. George Allen to the state Board of Education, where she served as its vice president for two years. During her term, Virginia adopted the Standards of Learning (SOL) in the four core academic disciplines (1995), developed statewide SOL testing (1996), developed and adopted new student diploma requirements and school accreditation requirements (1997), and created a School Report Card, a tool to inform the public about each school's academic test results (1998).

Following her State Board service, Lil worked as a policy analyst for The Family Foundation before joining the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute as Education Director.

Luce Policy Institute President Michelle Easton said, "Having a nationally recognized education reformer as our education director gives a tremendous boost to our goal of making parents preeminent in the education of their children."

Subjects of Interest:

K-12 Education
School Choice

Articles by Lil Tuttle:

K-12 Education Reform Begins with Alternative Choices
Accountability Test [for Public Schools]
Missing Numbers: Public Gets a Distorted Picture of School Spending
Governments Are Incapable of Holding Public Schools Accountable
'Stupid in America' is a Call to Action
The Elusive 'Sensible' Step in [School] Choice Reform
Recycling Discredited Education Reforms
Focus Standards of Quality on Children
Book Review: "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes
Book Review: The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy - If We Let it Happen
Is this the future college students dream of?
A Female Version of Our President

Reports & Issue Papers by Lil Tuttle:

Education Funding in Virginia: Aligning State Dollars to Achievement Priorities [Report]
Too Much of a Good Thing: Staffing and Students in Virginia's School Districts [Report]
Society's Watchdogs: A Study of Newspaper Coverage of Education News & Reforms in One State [Study]
Paying Private Prep School Prices for Public Schools
No Guarantees: Rating the Cost Efficiency of Virginia School Districts

Speech Topics:

Paying Private Prep Schools Prices for Public Schools

School Choice: A "System of Schools" for a Modern World

Society's Watchdogs: A Study of One State's Newspaper Coverage of K-12 Education News and Reforms

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