The Southern Regional Education Board is a nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia that works to improve education in its 16 member states in the southeastern United States: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.[1] SREB was founded in 1948 by the region's governors. North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue is board chair, having been elected at the board's 2010 annual meeting.[2]