January 23, 2006
A full-day conference was held at Colorado Law School's Courtroom for educational leaders and others offered ideas and information about advancing diversity within school choice systems. Leaders of Colorado's school choice community joined researchers to discuss the effects of choice on integration and segregation. Speakers from innovative districts around the U.S. presented concrete, practical options available to schools and districts in Colorado. Finally, local and national lawyers summarized the legal implications of pursuing such options.
This conference's agenda included mainly three panels: "The Goals and Effects of School Choice," "School Choice Options: Alternative Student Assignment Plans," & "The Legal Issues Surrounding Choice Options."
The sponsors for the conference included EPIC (Education Public Interest Center), Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, Holland & Hart, and The Piton Foundation.
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| L to R: Prof. Richard Collins, Director of the CU Law School's Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, Richard Cole, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and attorney for the school district in Comfort v. Lynn School Committee, & Mike Madden, Bennet, Bigelow & Leedom, and attorney for hte school district in Parents involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist., No. 1. |
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| Mike Madden, Partner with Bennet, Bigelow & Leedom, and attorney for the Seattle School District walks through their successful defense of its reace-conscious student assignment plan. |
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| This information-filled conference were attended mainly by the superintendents, school board members, attorneys, and other educators and policy-makers. |
