Easley to Lead National Education Board

The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area Monday, January 22, 2007

North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley has been appointed co-chairman of a national education organization targeting academic standards and high school reform.

Easley will lead Achieve Inc.’s bipartisan board made up of other governors and a number of corporate executives.

Easley joined the board of Achieve in June 2005 as it began work on the American Diploma Project Network, a 13-state network focused on raising high school standards and accountability. The network has since grown to 28 states.

Other members of the Achieve board of directors include Prudential Chairman and CEO Arthur Ryan, Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger, Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher and former IBM Chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner Jr.