CPER Launches Webinar Series - Resources and Tools Available

Building POWER From the Ground Up: Tools and Opportunities for Education Organizing in 2010

To access resources from the webinars, including the PowerPoint presentations and audio link, please go to our Resources & Reports page.

Advocates for education justice currently face a growing list of challenges, from state budget crises and increasing economic insecurity to declining philanthropic support for community organizing. Yet unprecedented levels of federal funding for school improvement and the impending reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) present unique and strategic opportunities for advancing grassroots-led education reform.

In this FREE webinar series, leaders in the field of education policy and educational justice will share information regarding some of the challenges and opportunities for advancing education reform as well as share tools aimed at strengthening our ability to seize these opportunities. Through these presentations, we hope to better understand how organizations are dealing with these challenges and opportunities and learn what tools, lessons, strategies, and research can inform our work.

Speakers will include (in alpha order):
• Alberto Retana, Director of Community Outreach, U.S. Department of Education
• Baruch Kintisch, Education Law Center Pennsylvania
• Danielle Farrie, Education Law Center New Jersey
• David Sciarra, Education Law Center New Jersey
• Jeremy Lahoud, Alliance for Educational Justice & Californians for Justice
• John Rogers, UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access
• Suzanne Immerman, Director of Philanthropic Engagement, U.S. Department of Education

This web series is brought to you by Communities for Public Education Reform. For more information and to register, click here!