May: Brown Bag Lunch with Jim Sandman, General Counsel for DC Public Schools
Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Arnold & Porter LLP
Paul Porter Room (Tenth Floor)
555 Twelfth Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
Register for the May lunch here.
Mr. Sandman will discuss public service – especially local public service – and the transition from private practice to government service.
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S
CENTER FOR PUBLIC & NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP and
CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH, TEACHING AND SERVICE
Invite you to attend an engaging discussion with leaders in the public education reform movement:
CREATING 21st CENTURY SCHOOLS:
PUBLIC EDUCATION REFORM
What impact will the financial crisis have on the public education reform efforts? How do philanthropists determine which reform strategies they want to support, and how do they measure success? How can young people contribute their talents to help strengthen public education for America’s children?
Co-Keynote Speakers
Kati Haycock, President, Education Trust
*The Trust does what no other Washington-based education organization seeks to do—speaks up for what’s right for young people, especially those who are poor or members of minority groups. Prior to coming to the Education Trust, Haycock served as Executive Vice President of the Children’s Defense Fund, the nation’s largest child advocacy organization.
Wendy Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network
*Puriefoy has been President of Public Education Network (PEN), the nation’s largest network of community-based school reform organizations. Puriefoy has been the leading force behind systemic reform initiatives. Puriefoy serves on the boards of DEMOS, Hasbro Children’s Foundation, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and the National Center for Family Philanthropy.
Other Presenters
Katherine Bradley, President, CityBridge Foundations
*Bradley founded CityBridge in 1994, a foundation that is providing support to D.C. Public Schools. Bradley serves as a board member for America’s Promise, the KIPP Foundation, Fight for Children, Princeton University, and chairs the Washington regional board for Teach for America.
Cate Swinburn, Executive Director, DC Public Education Fund
*Swinburn is Executive Director of the DC Public Education Fund, an organization committed to improving District of Columbia public schools through private investment and community involvement. Prior to this she worked in the New York City Department of Education managing a $70 million portfolio of grants and also with its Fund for Public Schools. She has also taught through Teach for America.
Wednesday, April 15th 2009
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Inter-Cultural Center Auditorium
Georgetown University
For more information and to RSVP visit: http://cpnl.georgetown.edu/rsvp.cfm?rsvp_id=27
Continental breakfast will be served at 9:00 a.m. with the program beginning at 10:00 a.m.
At the event our five national finalists of our research competition will present and defend their papers before a jury of some of the nation’s leading experts on teacher issues:
Steven Adamowski, Superintendent of Hartford Public Schools;
Jane Hannaway, Urban Institute;
Eric Hanushek, Hoover Institution;
Susan Moore Johnson, Harvard University;
Eugenia Kemble, Albert Shanker Institute;
Donald Langenberg, Chancellor Emeritus, University System of Maryland.
After all presentations, the winning paper will be chosen and the author will receive a cash prize of $15,000.
As an added bonus, DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee will share her take on collective bargaining.
Paper topics and further details can be found on our website at www.nctq.org/tr3/conference.
Registrations with fee waiver requests (for students and recent graduates) should be submitted to Trish Madden at tmadden@nctq.org.
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Attend in person in Washington, DC
9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. ET
Urban Institute
2100 M Street N.W., 5th Floor
Register
Listen to a live audio webcast
9 am ET / 8 am CT / 7 am MT / 6 am PT
Program length: 1.5 hours
Register
| From high-tech medical information systems to low-tech road building, the House version of the economic stimulus package covers the panoply of public policies and government programs. Children are in there, too. Some elements address them specifically, such as increases in education, Head Start, child care subsidies, and the child tax credit. These are buttressed by provisions to support their families’ income, work opportunities, and health care and to bail out state budgets to avoid program cuts. The Senate bill is expected to include less aid for states, schools, and other programs.
As the economy ails, policymakers, program managers, and service providers will be under extraordinary pressure to get the biggest bang for each buck. Be part of the discussion as experts tackle such questions as
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Did NCLB damage school accountability?
Can President Obama mend it?
Join us February 23 for a discussion featuring four trustees of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
David Driscoll, Former Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, Massachusetts
Bruno Manno, Senior Program Associate for Education, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Roderick Paige, Co-Founder, Chartwell Education Group and Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Diane Ravitch, Research Professor, New York University and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Moderator: Chester E. Finn, Jr., President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Presenter: Michael J. Petrilli, VP for National Programs & Policy, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The focus is The Accountability Illusion, to be released by Fordham on February 19, a new study that reveals profound
state-to-state differences in implementing NCLB’s “adequate yearly progress” provisions.
Monday, February 23
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Reception to follow
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
RSVP to Christina Hentges at rsvp@edexcellence.net or 202-223-5452.
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The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is a non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing educational excellence in America’s K-12 schools. We promote policies that strengthen accountability and expand education options. Our reports examine issues such as No Child Left Behind and school choice. For more information about the Institute’s work, visit www.edexcellence.net.
Active Voice, the American GI Forum of the United States,
the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities,
the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia,
the Hispanic National Bar Association, the Hispanic National Bar Foundation,
the Latino Leaders Network,
the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund,
the Public Broadcasting Service, and
the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia present:
A Sneak Preview of
“A Class Apart”
A documentary film chronicling the landmark 14th Amendment case,
Hernandez v. Texas.
David Lyle
Acting Executive Director,
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
Discussion panel following the film:
Carlos Sandoval
Producer and Director, A Class Apart; and
Recipient of the Sundance Special Jury Prize (2004) for his film Farmingville
Peter Miller
Producer and Director, A Class Apart; and
Producer and Director of the award-winning films
Sacco and Vanzetti and The Internationale
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Film Screening begins promptly at 7:00 p.m.
Discussion at 8:00 p.m.
Landmark Theatre E Street Cinema
555 11th Street NW
(entrance on E Street between 10th and 11th Street)
Washington, D.C.
There is no cost to attend this event, thanks to the generous sponsorship of
Mickey Ibarra & Associates, Inc.
RSVP
here.Join us afterwards at Gordon Biersch for conversation and refreshments. Gordon Biersch
900 F Street NW
Washington, D.C.
In the landmark case, defense lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican-Americans were “a class apart” and did not neatly fit into a legal structure that recognized only blacks and whites. As legal skirmishes unfolded, the lawyers emerged as brilliant, dedicated, humorous and at times terribly flawed men. This film dramatically interweaves the story of its central characters — activists and lawyers, returning veterans and ordinary citizens, murderer, and victim — within the broader history of Latinos in America during a time of extraordinary change.
