common core summit

PROGRAM
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:00pm | McHenry County College Hosted by Congressman Randy Hultgren

Welcome.
Thank you for joining me and our community of educators, administrators, thought leaders and parents to have an open and honest discussion about one of our most important concerns: our childrens education. No discussion of education should be held without parents and community involvement. As all of us in Illinois try to grapple with a struggling education system, we must do everything we can to make sure our kids are ready for college and the workforce. My goal tonight is for us to have a discussion of all aspects of the Common Core State Standards. In 2010, Illinois adopted the standards and plans to complete implementation by the end of the 2014-2015 school year. We want to hear from all sides of the issue so that we all can become better educated and leave with a clearer view of the impact the standards will have on our childrens future. Thank you for coming!

Randy Hultgren U.S. House of Representatives

Special Guest:
Susie Morrison has served as the Deputy Superintendent in Illinois since 2007 and serves as a senior ISBE executive and chief advisor to the Illinois State Superintendent. She has been an educator in Illinois for more than 30 years and has experience as a Junior/Senior high school teacher, K-12 administrator and the Illinois Director for AdvancED at the University of Illinois.

Moderator:
Bruno Behrend, J.D. is the executive director of For the Good of Illinois, and a senior fellow for education policy at The Heartland Institute. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Bruno Behrend C h a m p a i g n - U r b a n a , where he earned his degree in Finance. He earned his J.D. from IIT-Kent College of Law in 1990, and is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois. He is currently acting Executive Director of American Transparency, a new non-profit seeking to place all local, state, and federal spending in one easy to search on-line database and smart-phone applications.

She has held many leadership positions during her career at the Illinois State Board of Education including Division Administrator for School Improvement, Division Administrator for Middle and Secondary Education, Director of the Illinois Administrators Academy, Director of Gifted Education, Title I and State Director for Education-to-Careers. In her current role, Susie provides leadership and coordination to the States education reform agenda and represents the State Superintendent on numerous state and federal committees and with many stakeholder groups.

Susie Morrison

Panelists:
Bob Bowdon is the Executive Director of Choice Media, an education reform news service that produces a website, Twitter feed, original videos, and the Ed Reform Minute daily podcast. Previously, Bowdon directed The Cartel, a documentary about corruption in public education that won twelve film festival awards, a national theatrical release, and distribution from Warner Brothers. In his non-education reform endeavors, Bowdon has appeared as the recurring character Brian Scott for the Onion News Network, reporting fake, satirical news stories for both seasons of the Onions IFC cable channel show, and web videos. He also hosted Two-Way Street a nationally syndicated PBS public policy debate show. Before that, Bowdon spent six years as an anchor/reporter for Bloomberg Television. Prior to his media career, Bowdon earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.

Bob Bowdon

Mike Petrilli is an award-winning writer and one of the nations most trusted education analysts. As executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Petrilli helps to lead the countrys most influential educationpolicy think tank and contributes to its Flypaper blog and weekly Education Gadfly newsletter. He is the author of The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parents Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools, published in 2012. Petrilli is also a research fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution and executive editor of Education Next. Petrilli has published Mike Petrilli opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg View, and Wall Street Journal and has been a guest on NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, and Fox, as well as several National Public Radio programs, including All Things Considered, On Point, and the Diane Rehm Show. He is author, with Frederick M. Hess, of No Child Left Behind: A Primer. Petrilli helped to create the U.S. Department of Educations Office of Innovation and Improvement, the Policy Innovators in Education Network, and Young Education Professionals. He holds an honors-level bachelors degree in political science from the University of Michigan. He lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland. Erin Raasch is the founder of the website stopcommoncoreillinois.org; a community of concerned citizens working together to bring awareness to Common Core and Race to the Top initiatives. Erin is currently traveling the state giving Common Core presentations and radio interviews. Erin is a graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has a background in data collection and social science research. She is a wife and the mother of a special needs child who attends public school.

Erin Raasch

Ben Schwarm has been employed by the Illinois Association of School Boards for the past 23 years. He has spent the majority of that time as a legislative Specialist heading up the Governmental Relations Department. He currently serves as Deputy Executive Director and assists the Executive Director in the Associations policy formation, budget formation, and overall administration of the organization. Ben is charged with general supervision of all Association staff, management of Human Resources, day-to-day operations of the Association, and oversight of physical Ben Schwarm facilities. Ben is still head of the legislative department and coordinates the efforts of the School Management Alliance lobby team and ensures that the IASB team of lobbyists presents the positions of school board members before the Illinois General Assembly, the Governor, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the United States Congress. Ben also is the author of the Alliance Legislative Report.

Student Success Act

On July 19th, Rep. Hultgren joined the U.S. House of Representatives in passing H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, which limits the Secretary of Educations authority and halts federal overreach into the classroom. The bill is pending in the Senate. To learn more about H.R. 5, visit www.edworkforce.house.gov

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