AGENDA

Building on Success
7th Annual Quality Education Conference

June 7-8, 2007
Westin Washington, D.C. City Center Hotel

THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH

7:30 – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

7:45 – 8:30 am Registration

8:45 – 9:00 am Welcome

Rachel B. Tompkins, President, Rural School and Community Trust

9:00 – 9:30 am Opening Remarks: Building toward Continued Long-term Success

Michael A. Rebell, Executive Director, National Access Network

9:30 – 10:15 am Plenary Session: What Education Issues Will Congress Address this Year?

Jack Jennings, President and CEO, Center on Education Policy

10:15 – 11:00 am Plenary Sessions: Roundup from the States

Facilitator: Molly A. Hunter, Managing Director, National Access Network

11:00 – 11:15 am Break

11:15 – 12:45 pm Roundup from the States (Continued)

12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch

1:15 – 2:00 pm Luncheon Address: A View from the Bench
Judge George Bundy Smith, New York Court of Appeals, retired

2:15 – 3:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

1. Organizing for Success: Closing-the-Achievement-Gap Initiatives
2. Exploring Educational Issues for English Language Learners
3. “Give Kids Good Schools,” by the Public Education Network
4. Litigators’ Workshop I – For Litigators Only

3:45 – 4:00 pm Break

4:00 – 5:15 pm Plenary Session: Courting Success: How to Communicate Clearly in a World of Spin

5:15 – 6:30 pm Reception

FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH

7:30 – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 am Welcome

Wendy Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network (PEN)

9:00 – 10:00 am Keynote Address

The Honorable Representative Charles Rangel, Chair, House Ways and Means Committee

10:00 – 10:15 am Break

10:15 – 11:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

1. Convincing Courts to Issue Strong Orders
2. Next Generation Cost Studies
3. Building Facilities that Improve Equity and Adequacy
4. Seeking Better Schools: Three California Coalitions

12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch

12:30 – 12:45 pm Concluding Plenary Session: Linkages and Next Steps

1:00 – 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions

1. Linking Litigation, Learning & Political Action
2. Organizing Workshop: Statewide Collaborations
3 . Litigators’ Workshop II - For Litigators Only

3:00 pm Adjourn

You can also look at the Agenda from the 2006 Conference.