How Business Can Fix Nevada Education
Nevada Policy Research Institute Policy Summit – January 14, 2009 – The Orleans, Las Vegas, Nevada
AGENDA:
7:15 a.m. Registration
8:00 a.m. Breakfast – How Business Leaders Make Genuine Education Reform Happen
Dr. Matthew Ladner, Vice-President Research, Goldwater Institute, Phoenix, AZ
9:00 a.m. break
9:15 a.m. Charter schools in the real world
Charters are the future
Presenter: Karen Elzey, Executive Director, The Institute for a Competitive Workforce of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The Broadening School Choice Movement
Presenter: Scott Jensen, National Director of State Projects, Alliance for School Choice
10:15 a.m. break
10:30 a.m. How Value-added assessment reveals which schools – and teachers – are succeeding
Presenter: Dr. John Stone, President, Education Consumers Foundation, Phoenix, AZ
Discussants:
Dr. Karlene McCormick-Lee, Associate Superintendent, Clark County School District
Monte Miller, CEO, KeyState Corporate Management, Las Vegas, NV and Wilmington, DE
11:30 a.m. break
11:45 a.m The fiscal impact on Nevada of corporation tax credits foreducation
Presenter: Andrew Coulson, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute
Discussants:
Dr. Susan Aud, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Education, and consultant, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
Leigh Berdrow, Founder and Administrator, ACE High School, Reno, NV
12:45 p.m. break
1:00 p.m. luncheon -How business can build great schools
Making change in the real world
Presenters: Gary Jacobs and Larry Rosenstock, founders, High Tech High schools
High Tech High began in 2000 as a single charter high school launched by a coalition of San Diego business leaders and educators. It has evolved into a school development organization with a growing portfolio of innovative charter schools spanning grades
K-12. HTH combats the twin problems of student disengagement and low academic achievement by creating personalized, project-based learning environments where all students are well known by their teachers and are challenged to meet high expectations.
