Angie McPhaul

2018 NACSA Leader

Manager of Accountability, Denver Public Schools

Angie is the Manager of Accountability for the Portfolio Management Team. Before DPS, she was in graduate school at The Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy. She concurrently consulted for The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading on state and local education policy. Angie taught Kindergarten at a public charter school with Teach for America in Prince George’s County, Maryland and worked supporting state-level child advocates at The Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore. She holds as a B.A. from Stanford University.

Most Recent Posts

No Shortcuts to Student Success: The Case for Statewide Annual Assessments

When I think about why I’ve dedicated my career to advancing and strengthening the ideas and practices of authorizing, I think about the students I’ve met over the years—bright, curious...

Raising the Bar: NACSA’s Updated State Policy Recommendations

NACSA believes that strong laws enable strong authorizing. In turn, strong authorizing leads to strong public education outcomes for students, families, and communities. That’s why we regularly update our state...

A New Path Forward: NACSA’s Bold New School Application Guidance

I’ll never forget a foundational principle I learned nearly two decades ago, while authorizing in Indianapolis: It should be hard to gain approval to start a new charter school. But...