Improving Education
Improving Education

National Independent Private Schools Association Recognizing, encouraging and improving the quality of private school education.

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Professional Educators

NIPSA addresses the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in proprietary schools.

Reaching Goals

Dynamic, innovative, decision making, action oriented people. We thrive on competition and challenge.

Team Driven

Proprietary schools must work together, and focus on common challenges.

Communication Streamlined

We invite you to find out more about us and join the NIPSA network. We need you and you need us.

Making a difference in Education…

There are many associations for educators, but only one for educators who are also entrepreneurs: NIPSA, the National Independent Private Schools Association. Founded in 1983 by a group of California school owners, NIPSA addresses the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in proprietary school operation.
First, let it be said that NIPSA schools share much of the same educational agenda as you would in any school, private or public. Most important, we also share a similar motivation: to provide children with the best education possible.
We are professional educators first and foremost. Many of us are former public school superintendents, principals, and teachers. Others come from university faculties or from families who have been involved in school operation for generations.

NIPSA is an accrediting association and does not hold/keep any school or student records.

Proven Success

Why choose NIPSA

Encouraging Accreditation

Enhancing Goals

Providing Solutions

Establishing Programs

Improving Education

Academic / Therapeutic

We thrive on competition and challenge. We are dynamic, innovative, decision making, action oriented people. We like nothing better than to spot an emerging need of families or society and respond to it quickly with an appropriate program or service.

We cherish autonomy. We can act, unfettered by Boards or Trustees or elected officials. Of course that does not mean that we have no one to answer to for our actions. Far from it, we are governed by the free market. If we provide the quality of programs and services that families want and need, we attract and retain students: if not, students go elsewhere. We know of no better regulator that that.

Represented among us are many different visions of what quality education should be and how to achieve it.

We believe society needs such pluralism and benefits by having many educational options available. Parents should have a choice: different families desire different school experiences for their children; different children have different needs. We are proud that NIPSA schools encompass so much diversity.

Although we are fiercely independent, we realize that proprietary schools must work together, focus on common challenges, and speak out with pride about their contributions to American education. That is why NIPSA was founded, AND that is why we are growing. Our member schools now span the nation.

We invite you to find out more about us and join the NIPSA network. We need you and you need us.

OUR TEAM

Board Members

Robert Rudolph

President

Karyn E. Murray

Immediate Past President

Teri Logan

Executive Director

Dr. Tanya Price

Vice President of Emerging Programs

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