David Patterson
President, Board of Directors
CCAP (California Charter Authorizing Professionals
Dr. Patterson has more than three decades of helping develop high-performing schools. He is a founding member and President of California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP), a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening charter school authorizing in California. Dr. Patterson is also the founder of the Rocklin Academy Family of Schools and is Executive Director Emeritus. Rocklin Academy schools include three high performing Core Knowledge elementary charter schools and a college preparatory middle-high school. David is serving his third term on the Placer County Board of Education and has previously served as a board member on the Rocklin Unified and Del Paso Heights School EDS. Dr. Patterson was the Executive Director and Director of Governmental Relations for the California Network of Educational Charters. Dr. Patterson served for ten years at the California Department of Education where he served as the Department’s point person for charter schools.
