Conference on The Crisis in Public Education

Keynote speaker: Herb Kohl (founder of Open Schools movement). Panels on Privatization of Education; Funding of Education; Institutional Racism; Counter-Recruitment; Vision for the Future.Panelists include Kathy Emery (author: "Why is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools"); Harold Berlak author: "People's Guide to High Stakes Testing"); Betty Olson-Jones (President, Oakland Education Association); and speakers from Youth Together, Criticial Resistance, ACORN, Books Not Bars, Education Not Incarceration. California Budget Project and more ... Initiated by Oakland Education Association