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Why Bother? Interrogating the Political Will for Modern School Desegregation

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Host:  Gina Chirichigno
Location:  Hampshire College, FPH East Lecture Hall
893 West Street, Amherst, MA View Map
When Wednesday, April 30, 7:30pm
Phone 617-945-5568
Education Action, in conjunction with Hampshire College's Critical Studies of Childhood, Youth, and Learning (CYL) Program, will be hosting an action-oriented panel discussion about the 2007 Supreme Court Decisions in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District. The event will feature the following four panelists: Susan Eaton -Author of Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial -Research Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Racial Justice Institute at Harvard Law School Jere Hochman -Superintendent of Amherst Public Schools -Former Chair of Voluntary Interdistrict Coordinating Council (governing board of the St. Louis voluntary desegregation plan) Kahris White-McLaughlin -Co-chair of Racial Imbalance Advisory Committee -Board President of METCO, Inc. -Affirmative Action Officer for Cambridge Public Schools Damali Jackson -Hampshire College Student -Former METCO Student Please email educationactioninfo@gmail.com if you would like more information. We hope to see you there! Image (Copyright CORBIS/Bettmann) Donated by Corbis-Bettmann