Why Bother? Interrogating the Political Will for Modern School Desegregation

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