Event Title

School Inequality: Challenges and Solutions

Presenter Information

Catherine Lhamon
Kimberly Robinson
David Hinojosa
Molly Hunter
Lisa Scruggs
Javaid Siddiqi
Jerusha Conner
Jason Nance
Marilyn Armour
Pamela Meanes
Meredith Harbach
Preston Green III
Gerard Robinson

Location

University of Richmond School of Law

Start Date

23-10-2015 9:00 AM

Description

“Welcome Remarks” were given by Wendy Collins Perdue, Dean of the University of Richmond School of Law, and Dr. Ronald Crutcher, President of the University of Richmond. (9:05 a.m.–9:15 a.m.)

“Keynote” by Catherine Lhamon, U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. (9:15 a.m.–10:00 a.m.)

“State-Level School Finance Panel” by Kimberly Robinson, Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law; David Hinojosa, National Director of Policy with the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA); and Molly Hunter, Director of the Education Law Center’s Educational Justice program. (10:00 a.m.–11:10 a.m.)

“Innovation in Addressing School Inequality Panel” by Lisa Scruggs, Partner with Duane Morris, LLP; Javaid Siddiqi, Director of Hunt-Kean Leadership Fellows at the Hunt Institute; and Jerusha Conner, Associate Professor and Graduate Education Program Coordinator at Villanova University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. (11:10 a.m.–12:20 p.m.)

“School Discipline Panel” by Jason Nance, Associate Professor of Law and the Associate Director for Education Law and Policy at the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida Levin College of Law; Marilyn Armour, a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director of the Institute for Restorative Justice and Restorative Dialogue at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work; Pamela Meanes, Partner at Thompson Coburn LLP and former President of the National Bar Association; and Meredith Harbach, Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. (1:20 p.m.–2:30 p.m.)

Finally, a debate on the role the federal government should hold in the governance of public education featured Preston Green III, the John and Carla Klein Professor of Urban Education and Professor of Educational Leadership and Law at the University of Connecticut (arguing in favor of the federal government having an increased role) and Gerard Robinson, Resident Fellow of Educational Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (arguing against). (2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.)

Comments

The Symposium brought together the nation’s leading education policy scholars to identify the critical inequality issues affecting public schools, and offer ways to address them.