Who We Are
TIER is a 501©(3) non-profit, non-partisan organization of
community and business leaders throughout the state who
have organized themselves to raise public awareness and educate
Texas opinion leadership on the current status of public
education in Texas, the progress of our standards and accountability
based reforms to date, the prognosis for achieving the
essential universal educational proficiency of the children of
Texas, and the daunting challenges that we face in doing so.
Through its leaders and advisors, TIER has access to the
nation’s leading education policy expertise, the best minds in
the country, and will use these resources to bring to bear on
the Texas reform effort the best available research-based
strategies, benchmarked practices, and policy innovations.
Board of Directors
Bill Hammond - Biography
President & CEO, Texas Association of Business
Bernie Francis - Biography
CEO/Owner of Business Control Systems, Dallas
Sandy Kress - Biography
Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, and Feld, LLP, Austin
Bill McMinn - Biography
Senior Advisor, The Sterling Group, Houston
David Merrill - Biography
Financial Advisor, Brownsville
Charlie Amato - Biography
Chairman and co-founder of SWBC
Rod Paige - Biography
Ed. D., Former U. S. Secretary of Education and Co-Founder, Chartwell Education Group, Houston
Andy Thompson - Biography
Partner, Thompson & Murff, LLC, Fort Worth
Jim Windham - Biography
Windham Capital Advisory Services, Houston |
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Officers
Jim Windham
Chairman
Andrew Erben
President, Biography
Karen Walker
Secretary & Treasurer |
Policy Advisory Board
Patricia B. Bubb - Executive Director, Tech Prep of the Rio Grande Valley, Inc. - Biography
Chrys Dougherty, PhD - Director of Research
National Center for Education Accountability
Maria Hernandez Ferrier, Ed. D. - Executive Director, Funding and Programs, Southwest Independent School District, San Antonio
Beto Gonzalez - Deputy Superintendent, Brownsville Independent School District
Eric Hanushek - Ph. D., Researcher, University of Texas at Dallas and Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Rick Hess, PhD - Director of Education Research
American Enterprise Institute
Dianne Johnson - Past President
Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees
Matt Ladner, PhD - Vice President
Goldwater Institute
Don McAdams, PhD - Executive Director
Center for the Reform of School Systems
Chris Patterson - CPSE K16
Billy Reagan, PhD - Retired Superintendent
Houston Independent School District
Paul Ruiz, PhD - Senior Adviser, The Education Trust, SW - Biography
Sandra Stotsky, PhD - University of Arkansas, College of Education |
