| Roderick
Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education to discuss the Effects of
the No Child Left Behind Act on Public School Funding, Quality Teacher
Retention, and the Student’s Overall Educational Experience at Thurgood
Marshall School of Law’s Symposium
Thurgood Marshall Law Review
Staff will host a symposium to provide scholarly dialogue on the effects
of the No Child Left Behind Act in relation to education policies.
The symposium
scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. and conclude at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday,
February 11, 2006, will feature experts in the fields of education
and law including, Keynote Speaker Dr. Rod Paige, former U.S.
Secretary of Education; Dr. Alma Allen, Texas State Representative;
John Brittain, Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy Director of the
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, and former dean of the Thurgood
Marshall School of Law; David Hinojosa, Mexican American Legal
Defense Educational Fund; Joel Packer, Manager for Elementary
& Secondary Education Act for the National Education Association;
and Thurgood Marshall Professors L. Darnell Weeden and Faith Jackson.
“The selected speakers
are very important in the fields of education policy and civil rights,”
said Angela Harrington, symposium coordinator. “We are thrilled that
there will be so many notable people dialoguing with the community (parents,
students, teachers, school board members, and tax payers) on educational
policies of the No Child Left Behind Act.”
Harrington anticipates stimulating discussions on the problems with
the No Child Left Behind Act, and is hopeful
that the symposium will provide possible solutions to those problems.
“The question we all want answered is: who is accountable to whom?”
expressed Harrington.
Attorneys who attend the
symposium will receive 3.75 MCLE credit hours. To register for the symposium,
visit www.tsu.edu/alumni/registration.
The registration fee for attorneys is $40.00. Law students and non-attorneys
may attend the symposium free of charge.
For more information regarding
the symposium, contact Angela Harrington@713-240-5035. |
