Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for a special presentation:
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Opening Remarks:
Winnie Stachelberg, Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Featured speakers:
Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), Member of Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee
Featured panelists:
Peter Gorman, Superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
William Guenther, President, Mass Insight Education
Michele McLaughlin, Senior Education Policy Advisor, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Majority staff
Susan Traiman, Director of Public Policy, Business Roundtable
Moderated by:
Cynthia Brown, Vice President for Education Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Large numbers of schools across the country are low performing and have been for years. This longstanding, widespread problem reveals that districts and states, as well as schools, wrestle with how to turn around struggling schools. Federal policy can play a key role in rectifying the systemic failures that allow schools to flounder. The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is a ripe opportunity to revise the law’s main program that supports school turnaround, the School Improvement Grant fund.
Join us as we hear from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who will outline the administration’s ESEA priorities for school turnaround. Sen. Kay Hagan will discuss the introduction of her school reward and turnaround bill, the STAR Act. A panel discussion will follow that examines how lessons learned from leading states and districts can inform the reauthorization of ESEA.
May 12, 2011, 10:30am – 12:00pm
Space is extremely limited. RSVP required. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and not guaranteed.
Coffee will be served at 10:00 a.m.
Center for American Progress Action Fund
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Map & Directions
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