About Us

Education Action Group Foundation, Inc., a national organization headquartered in Michigan, has a seven-person staff. EAG is a non-partisan non-profit organization with the goal of promoting sensible education reform and exposing those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Kyle Olson, Publisher; Founder & CEO

Kyle is Publisher of EAGnews.org, a news service dedicated to education reform and school spending research, reporting, analysis and commentary.

He currently appears in a weekly “Fox & Friends” segment called “The Trouble with Schools” on the Fox News Channel.

His second documentary film is “A Tale of Two Missions,” featuring Juan Williams.  His first book, “Indoctrination: How ‘Useful Idiots’ Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism,” can be purchased here.

Kyle is a contributor to Townhall.com and BigGovernment.com.

He has made other appearances on Fox Business Network, NPR and MSNBC. Kyle has given scores of interviews on talk radio programs coast to coast. His work has been cited by the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.

He graduated from Michigan State University in 2001.

While Kyle likes talking politics, he especially likes to talk about his family, as well as his favorite music. Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Johnny Cash are at the top of the list. He has attended 22 Bob Dylan shows.

Kyle’s personal website is kyleolson.org and he can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

Steve Gunn, Editor-in-Chief

Steve Gunn, Editor-in-Chief, has a background in print journalism. He worked 15 years as an award-winning political, local government and general assignment reporter for the Muskegon (MI) Chronicle. Prior to that he served for five years as an award-winning sports reporter and columnist for the same newspaper.

He is also a weekly columnist for the Chronicle.

Steve has a Bachelors degree in history, with a separate completed communications major, from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.

Victor Skinner, Communications Specialist

Victor Skinner is an award winning journalist who has written for several daily newspapers including the Utica, New York Observer-Dispatch, theMuskegon Chronicle, the Traverse City Record-Eagle, and the Grand Rapids Press. He has a bachelor’s degree in public relations and journalism from Syracuse University at Utica College in upstate New York, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2005.

He has placed in the Associated Press and Michigan Press Association news writing contests. He also garnered several competitive writing grants and scholarships while attending Utica College.

Victor lives in Norton Shores with his wife Amanda. In his free time, he enjoys swimming, boating, scuba diving, camping, disc golfing, skim boarding, hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities.

Ben Velderman, Project Manager

Even though Ben’s teaching career lasted a brief two years, he accumulated a storehouse of experiences as the 7th and 8th grade classroom teacher for Zeeland Public Schools’ alternative program.  Working with fellow teachers and classroom aides, Ben sought to help at-risk students achieve academic success as well as develop the individual life skills needed for success outside the classroom.  Though not always an easy assignment, the day-to-day development of many students proved to be very rewarding.

During his days as a student teacher, Ben worked at Black River Public School, one of the nation’s premier charter schools.  That experience enabled him to see first-hand the unique qualities (such as the commitment to innovation and accountability) that make charter schools such a promising addition to the public education system.

Ben holds an undergraduate degree from Hope College and a Master’s degree from Michigan State University.  He received his teacher certification through Grand Valley State University.  He is also a former member of the Michigan Education Association.

Alisha Meneely, Director of Outreach

Alisha Meneely joined Education Action Group as the Director of Outreach in the Spring of 2011. For the last 13 years, Alisha has demonstrated her passions for politics, children, education and grassroots activism through her work with a number of Michigan state legislators and the Michigan Association of Public School Academies.

Alisha joined EAG in order to more aggressively advocate for policies that will allow every parent to CHOOSE the best school for their child. Additionally, as a mother herself, she is determined to stop failing schools from failing our nation’s kids year after year and to protect those schools that put children and their education first.

Alisha has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science Pre-Law from Michigan State University. She lives in West Michigan with her husband and son.

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  • NEDMARRS

    EAG is far from non-partisan. You lie about yourselves just like FoxNews does with it’t “Fair and Balanced” saying.
    Stop lying.

    • Kirk N.

      Hey Nedmars, just because one political party aligns itself with the same common sense reforms EAG is calling for doesn’t make EAG partisan. Maybe you should examine your motivations for your own partisanship, then, perhaps you’ll be able to see both sides of the issue and recognize that the truth is non-partisan.

    • Craig M. Rosenblum

      Their job isn’t to attack teacher’s, their job is to report on the evil acts that are done in education’s name by all those who protect Scott Walker. Scott Walker may be from Wisconsin, but he’s trying his best to make the budget work. There are finite financial resources, accept that, and try to find better ways to save money. But Nooo this is really about union’s being afraid of allowing worker’s the free choice to be or not be in a union. Proves how tyrannical most unions are when they are afraid of freedom!

      • Drude

         I’m not in a union, but I think unions aren’t afraid of ‘freedom’, they (and others) are afraid of the trends of low wages and middle-class stagnation for the last 20 years. Moreover, I understand the ‘limited govt.’ mantra…means limited to ‘me’ (or those who say it), but not for others. Businesses in Wisconsin like Palermo’s Pizza have been getting a pretty sweet deal in govt. hand-outs. Under Democrat Gov. Jim Doyle, $340,000 in tax credits, and Walker continues the deals by throwing another $400,000 + to ‘earn and learn’ programs, which I’ll bet is just cheap summer labor for companies under the guise of ‘work experience’. Obviously, then, even under Rep’s, winners and losers are being picked, the same thing they complain about. Furthermore, using Palermo’s Pizza again, (Milwaukee based), they’ve hedged their donations for both parties in the past, so clearly this partisan talk is just a ruse, they don’t care which party is in office, as long as the state funds keep coming they’re way. What happened to the mantra of letting the ‘free-market’ work and if a business is failing, let it fail. What’s the deal with all this state tax dollars going to individual businesses like this?

      • Scammers

         They really don’t have a job.  This is a scam organization founded for no other reason than to skim money off of the weak minded.  These people are unwilling to work, so they set up a fake site, ask for donations, and sit on their couch waiting for some cash to flow in.  Classic scam, too bad so many people are stupid enough to fall for it. 

  • mindy

    Just finished “Rescue Mission” UN Agenda 21 for children….You better study what the “global government” people want to teach our children.  It has nothing to do with their freedoms, our Constitution or personal property.

  • Drude

    How does one hold the political views such as Mr. Olsen, and then cite Bob Dylan as their favorite musical artist? Have any problems with cognitive dissonance? 

    • Craig M. Rosenblum

      Even though Bob Dylan is from Minnesota, doesn’t make him a good musician, (my apologies to my parents who love his music.) Everyone has different music taste’s we do not have to agree with each other, but like voltaire said:

      “I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it”

      • Drude

         I’m not questioning whether Dylan is ‘good’ or not, I’m referring to the content of Dylan’s lyrics.

  • Teabaggers

    How about these people actually get a job?  So sick of right wing hacks creating websites begging for more money to continue their “lifestyles of lazy”.  Quit asking for handouts and GET A JOB!!!

  • KyleRoomate

    I knew Kyle Olson when he was with the National Alliance, a far right wing neo-Nazi organization.  At the time Kyle was the one always willing to be the “trigger man” for violent actions.  Ironically, it had been said his hate stemmed from his underlying homosexual tendencies.  Many said to hide his true self he went to the other extreme as so many politicians do these days.  Generally, if you hear one screaming and inciting violence against gays, it is a way to deflect the suspicion of themselves being in fact, homosexual.  Anyway, Kyle has also turned to being a scam artist with organizations such as this.  They find a “cause” and ask for money.  The funds roll in by partisan extremists who are more than willing to throw some money their way.  In turn, Kyle and others take the funds and run, not really doing anything to further their fake cause. 

  • ProgressiveMom

    Non partisan? Are you KIDDING me???? Kyle Olson is extremist as they come. These pinheads want nothing but to destroy public schools. They’re smoking the same thing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is.

  • ProgressiveMom

    Non partisan? Are you KIDDING me???? Kyle Olson is extremist as they come. These pinheads want nothing but to destroy public schools. They’re smoking the same thing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is.