The Arizona Charter Schools Association is a nonprofit membership and professional organization that advocates and strengthens the autonomy, equity, and quality of Arizona’s diverse public charter schools. Vision All Arizona students have access to a high quality public charter school. Mission The Association is dedicated to supporting Arizona’s thriving public charter school sector. As the voice of Arizona’s charter schools, the Arizona Charter Schools Association engages a diverse coalition of policymakers, school leaders, and community members for a fair and transparent policy landscape that allows high-quality charter schools to flourish throughout Arizona.

The Ultimate Knowledge Institute opened its doors in 1999 as an Information Technology, Information Assurance and Cyber Security training provider to the Department of Defense, Federal Agencies, DOD Contracting Partners, and Fortune 500 companies. While providing standardized and customized training solutions coupled with unsurpassed customer support, UKI ensured students were thoroughly prepared to immediately apply their knowledge to the environment they support. The Ultimate Knowledge Institute has created three separate branches to maximize efficiency: "UKI-Education", "UKI-Development" and "UKI-Professional Services". Each of these branches continues to deliver industry leading services that our clients have come to know and expect.

Founded in 1975, Western Regional Examining Board's (WREB) mission is to develop and administer competency assessments for state agencies that license dental professionals. WREB maintains our internal focus on providing the highest quality examinations and striving to be the leading administrator and best developer in this field while maintaining awareness of the demands of the testing community. Currently there are 40 States that accept WREB exams of which 21 are member States, 1 affiliate member State, and 19 non-member states. This nonprofit is an independent 501(c)6, membership organization with a full-time staff and 400 volunteers that work together to achieve their strategic goals and mission. For more information, visit https://www.wreb.org.

• Completed $16.5M construction bond for campus expansion project.• Set, maintained, and monitored construction budget goals and carved out $250K from bond for cash flow needs.• Reduced expenditure over 15% on a $10M budget by utilizing appropriate staffing levels, closure of unproductive campus, detailed analysis of major expense categories to eliminate financial waste.• Provided strategic leadership for the school on finances, budget development, and investments. Direct the receipt, management of investments and expenditures of the school’s funds to insure proper and maximum returns on these funds. Forecasts short- and long-range cash requirements and obligations as a basis for sound financial funding mechanisms.• Responsible for overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of staff responsible for payroll, budget, finance, and accounting functions in accordance with the school’s policies and applicable laws. • Directed the grants management programs to ensure maximum and effective participation in all available local, state, and federal grants.• Assured protection of the assets of the school by enforcing and promoting internal controls, internal auditing, and ensuring proper insurance coverage.

Tempe Preparatory Academy is a tuition-free, public charter school for grades 6-12 located in Tempe, Arizona. Ranked as the #1 high school in Arizona, and #15 in the U.S. by Newsweek's America's Top High Schools 2016, Tempe Prep is also recognized by the Arizona Board of Regents in 2016 as having the highest percentage of students that graduate from college. The Academy is a traditional liberal arts school with small classes, a student/teacher ratio of 10 to 1, and an advanced core curriculum designed for college-bound students. Founded in 1996, the school requires a common and rigorous sequence of courses for all students. All high school students take 4 years of math, English, social studies, fine arts, lab science, and foreign language, and are required to complete a Senior Thesis as well as 10 hours of community service each year. The mission of Tempe Preparatory Academy is to educate students for the lifelong pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. TPA graduates have a foundation in the liberal arts of grammar and rhetoric, logic and mathematics, history, natural science, and philosophy, with the fine arts of music, drawing and painting, and drama. TPA focuses on a rigorous integrated honors liberal arts curriculum rather than AP or IB programs. As a result, Tempe Prep is recognized by the Arizona Board of Regents as having the highest percentage of college graduates among all public high schools in the state. TPA’s 50 seniors in the Class of 2016 received over $10.5 million in college scholarship offers. TPA graduates are currently attending Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Wellesley, UC Berkeley, and many other colleges and universities across the country and internationally. TPA serves a student population of 440 students in grades 6-12. Approximately 34% of the students represent various racial, ethnic or national backgrounds (including Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and African American).

The League for Innovation in the Community College is an international consortium dedicated to cultivating the community college movement since 1968. The League Alliance membership is comprised of over 500 institutions and their campuses, representing 10 countries and territories who continue to share and demonstrate their commitment to innovation, experimentation, and institutional transformation. The League also partners with more than 160 corporations and a host of other organizations, foundations, and government agencies who work with the League to bring ground-breaking ideas to its members. Benefits for League Alliance members include: * Access to innovative ideas in learning, assessment, technology, leadership, workforce development, diversity, and fundraising from the best and brightest in the community college world. * Connections with community college professionals and corporate leaders who are dedicated to improving learning environments and have the expertise to help institutions achieve their goals. * Participation in League projects, partner activities, scholarships, national and international awards, grants, and discounts. * Discounted registration for League conferences, institutes, and summits. * The opportunity to be featured in the monthly “Member Spotlight” in the League Connections e-newsletter. * And so much more!

PAN-AMERICAN ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL DISTRICT is a primary/secondary education company based out of 3001 W INDIAN SCHOOL RD, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Paradise Valley Christian Preparatory (PVCP) is a private Christian school in Phoenix, Arizona providing academic excellence.

AEA is a professional association and a labor union, advocating on behalf of students, staff, and teachers in Arizona.

For the last 60+ years, Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA) has been empowering the futures of millions of Arizona students by giving them the knowledge and skills they need to manage their money, plan for their future, and make smart academic, career and economic choices. Delivered by 9,500 business and community volunteer mentors, our hands-on, age-appropriate programs focus on three key areas: financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Serving more than 80,000 students each year and over 2 million since its founding, JA is shaping the college- and career-readiness conversation, and we play an important role in Arizona’s workforce and economic development. Our programs help students connect what they learn in the classroom to the real world, and demonstrate how learning correlates to earning – knowledge critical to empowering today’s students to be successful, contributing members of society in the future. We serve students with diverse backgrounds and socio-economic status throughout Arizona, with primary focus on providing our programs to students from low-income households. We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization wholly dependent on the financial and volunteer support of individuals, foundations and businesses.

Western School of Science and Technology: A Challenge Foundation Academy (Western: CFA) is a blended learning STEM public charter middle and high school serving the Maryvale neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. Western School of Science and Technology: A Challenge Foundation Academy exists to transform Maryvale by improving low-income west Phoenix students’ opportunities for advancement in the global technological economy by providing needed preparation for the academic rigors of college graduation leading to career success. Western: CFA is literally closing the gap in educational achievement that exists between other students in Maryvale and their higher-income peers. In just its second year, Western: CFA offers a proof point in the Maryvale neighborhood that low-income underserved youth can access the educational skills necessary to be successful in the new economy, be prepared for college persistence and graduation, and become integral parts of Arizona’s new global economy. Western School of Sciecne and Technology: CFA aims to be the first A high school in the Maryvale neighborhood.