Exploring New Horizons
for Equal Educational Opportunity
June 11-12, 2008
SEIU Building, at Dupont
Circle, NW, Washington, DC
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PRELIMINARY AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11th
| 7:30 9:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 9:15 am |
Registration |
| 9:15 9:30 am |
Welcome |
| 9:30 10:15 am |
Keynote Address |
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Dr. John Jackson, President, Schott Foundation
in Public Education |
| 10:15 11:00 am |
Plenary Session |
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Progress and Challenges: Reports from the States |
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Facilitator: Molly A. Hunter, Director, Education
Justice, Education Law Center |
| 11:00 11:15 am |
Break |
| 11:30 12:30 pm |
PLENARY SESSION
(Continued) |
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Progress and Challenges: Reports from the States |
| 12:30 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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Luncheon Address and Questions (1:15 2:00
pm)
|
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A View from the Bench
|
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Associate Justice John M. Greaney, Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court |
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Introduced by Michael Weisman, Weisman & McIntyre |
| 2:15 3:45 pm |
Concurrent Sessions |
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1. Empowering Advocates
to Transform Education Policy 2.
Ensuring Equal Opportunity in a Standards
and Testing World
3. Litigators Workshop
I (For Plaintiff
Litigators Only) |
3:45 4:00 pm
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Break
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4:15 5:15 pm
|
Plenary Session
|
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Framing the Debate: How to Promote Equity and
Adequacy |
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Cornell Belcher, President, Brilliant Strategies |
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Introduced by Beth Sullivan, President, Education
Voters |
| 5:15 6:30 pm |
Reception |
THURSDAY, JUNE 12th
| 7:30 8:45 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 9:00 am |
Welcome |
| 9:00 9:30 am |
Plenary Session |
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Sustaining Success in Education Adequacy Reform
Efforts |
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Michael A. Rebell, Executive
Director, National Access Network, Teachers College,
Columbia University |
9:30 11:00 am
|
Concurrent Sessions |
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1. Framing the Education
Debate to Raise Public Awareness 2.
Litigating Around Achievement Gaps: Are
Programs that Work Remedies?
3. Righting Rodriguez: Implications
of Advancing a Federal Constitutional
Right to Education |
11:00 11:15 am
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Break |
11:15 12:45 pm
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Concurrent Sessions
|
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1. Building Power
2. How Can Low-wealth Communities Get and Keep
Teaching Quality?
3. Litigators Workshop II (For Plaintiff
Litigators Only) |
| 1:00 pm |
Adjourn and Lunch |
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