President & CEO of the Arizona Choice in Education
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Andrew T. LeFevre is President & CEO of the Arizona Choice in Education Foundation, a scholarship granting organization that participates in the state’s educational tax credit programs. The ACE Foundation provides scholarships to low income students all across the state to attend a school that best fits their individual educational needs, thus providing them with a greater opportunity to achieve the American dream.
Mr. LeFevre is also President of LeFevre Associates, LLC, a government relations and public affairs consulting firm located in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. He also serves as a founding board member and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Alliance for Cyber Education (PACE) a nonprofit organization advocating for public cyber education in Pennsylvania. PACE seeks to ensure that Pennsylvania's policies will allow this form of public education to remain a vibrant and viable choice for Pennsylvania's children, with full and equitable funding, and fair and reasonable regulations consistent with the spirit and intent of the laws that allow cyber schools to operate in the Commonwealth.
Prior to relocating to Arizona, Mr. LeFevre served as Executive Director of the REACH Alliance and REACH Foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1991, REACH (Road to Educational Achievement through Choice) is the Commonwealth’s leading grassroots coalition seeking to educate the public on the benefits that school choice can bring to Pennsylvania’s children. REACH represents individuals, business, religious, civic, taxpayer and non-profit organizations committed to educational achievement through choice. During his five years at REACH, he oversaw the expansion of the state’s highly innovative and successful corporate educational tax credit program from $45 million to $75 million.
Throughout his career, Mr. LeFevre has written numerous articles about educational and criminal justice issues and interacted on a daily basis with legislators from all across the country discussing education and crime topics. He has testified before numerous state legislatures on key education and crime issues. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is married and has two children, both of which attend public school.
