Dr. Judith S. Stein is presently the Executive Director of the National institute for Educational Options at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) which runs the Florida School choice resource center. Dr. Stein’s background is school choice and career education. She was the Principal investigator of the USDOE voluntary school choice grant for the Florida Department of Education for seven and one half years. Dr. Stein served as the president of the consortium of magnets/public choice schools, the state organization for magnet schools/programs. She is the treasurer of the Florida parental school choice consortium presently operating in Florida. She is also the interim executive director of the newly formed Florida Charter School Alliance. In 2009 after a forty year career, she was inducted into the Florida Hall of Fame for Career and Technical Education.