Lydia Rainey

Lydia Rainey is a research principal at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, where her research focuses on ways to design and implement equitable and innovative school systems, with attention to ways to disrupt our current systems’ preference for the status quo. Her recent research has focused on how educational leaders in state agencies, central offices, and schools lead the design and implementation of new policies and practices that call for deep changes in how their school system educates students. She approaches this work using traditional qualitative, quantitative, and design-based techniques. Lydia has a PhD in Educational Policy, Organizations, and Leadership, a MPA from the Evans School of Public Affairs, and a BA in Political Economy, all from the University of Washington.