Kyle Hyland, Director, Governmental Relations, supports the governmental relations team by coordinating legislative and policy issues of interest to School Services of California Inc.’s (SSC) clients. This includes representing client interests at all levels of government, performing research and analysis, developing conclusions, preparing communications and reports, preparing documents to support or oppose legislative or policy matters, and monitoring meetings of administrative and policymaking bodies.

In his time with SSC, Kyle has provided timely information to the field about critical education issues in Sacramento by writing Fiscal Report and Community College Update articles, contributing to SSC’s “Top Legislative Issues” series, and producing the weekly Sacramento Update for legislative clients.

Prior to joining SSC, Kyle served as Special Assistant to the Executive Team at the Foundation for California Community Colleges—the statewide nonprofit supporting the California Community Colleges system—where he managed the California Community Colleges Scholarship Endowment, the largest scholarship endowment for a community college system in the nation. Prior to that, Kyle supported the legislative team for Lehman Levi Pappas & Sadler, a former top ten Sacramento-based lobbying and government relations firm.

Kyle received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from California State University, Sacramento.