Robin Lake is the editor of Unique Schools Serving Unique Students. She is Associate Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington, where she specializes in charter school research and policy development that focuses on effective accountability policies, scale and supply, and school district use of chartering as a reform strategy. Ms. Lake is also Executive Director of the Center's National Charter School Research Project (NCSRP). The book's contributors are Lauren Morando Rhim, education consultant, Tracey O'Brien, Kelly Hupfeld, and Paul Teske