[Smlr_net] Christian Estevez to be Panelist at PEI Discussion of the new book "Urban Schools - Public Will" at Rutgers University on June 6, 2007]

Christian Estevez to be Panelist at PEI Discussion of the new book

"Urban Schools - Public Will"

at Rutgers University on June 6, 2007

SMLR alumnus Christian Estevez, who was recently elected to the Plainfield School Board, will participate on a panel of distinguished leaders in the field of education where they will discuss the themes expounded upon in the new book, Urban Schools - Public Will: Making Education Work for All Our Children, by Norm Fruchter, author and Director of the Community Involvement Program of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. The program is being sponsored by the Public Education Institute and will take place on June 6, 2007 at Rutgers University. More information can be found in the program announcement below.

The Public Education Institute

Presents

URBAN SCHOOLS - PUBLIC WILL:

Making Education Work for All Our Children

"This is a hopeful book, because the writer writes out of a life of struggle to make schools work for the disenfranchised, marginalized, and oppressed. It is a hopeful book because the author lives, works, researches and organizes in the city. This book is not about "other people's children." It is apparent on every page that Norm Fruchter believes that the struggle to transform urban schools is about him, about all of us, as much as it is about the parents of the children currently attending schools in urban America."

Theresa Perry, from the foreword to Urban Schools-Public Will

When: June 6, 2007, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Where: Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center, Rutgers University

100 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901

Moderator: Larry Leverett, Executive Director, Panasonic Foundation

Keynote Address:

Norm Fruchter, Director

Community Involvement Program of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University

Author, Urban Schools - Public Will: Making Education Work for All Our Children

Panel Presentations and Discussion:

Willa Spicer, Deputy Commissioner, NJDOE

William Librera, former Commissioner, NJDOE

Junius Williams, Esq., Abbott Leadership Institute

Irene Sterling, President, Paterson Education Fund

Christian Estevez, Education and Training Coordinator, New Jersey State AFL-CIO and newly elected member, Plainfield School Board

To register, please fax a completed form to (732) 564-9099 or

E-mail your complete registration information to mailto:rupei@rci.rutgers.edu rupei@rci.rutgers.edu

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THANK YOU!

Christian Estevez

Education & Training Coordinator

New Jersey State AFL-CIO

106 West State Street

Trenton, NJ 08608

Phone (609) 989-8730

Fax (609) 989-8734

estevez@njaflcio.org

www.njaflcio.org