Ariana Quinones-Miranda has worked on fixing schools in the District for more than a decade. She is deputy director of Friends of Choice in Urban Schools, an advocacy group for public charter schools, and she volunteers on an advisory council that gives input to D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

How and why did you first become involved with education reform?

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