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(Feb 6, 2009 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  Sponsored by the Policy Research Institution for the Region (PRIOR) and the New Jersey School Boards Association)

Agenda:

Pt 1:  T&E’s STEP CHILD: AN EFFICIENT SYSTEM of FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Paul L. Tractenberg, Esq., Board of Governors Distinguished Professor and Alfred C. Clapp Distinguished Public Service Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law – Newark

Pt 2: CONSOLIDATION THE ULTIMATE EFFICIENCY APPROACH: IS IT?

Ernest Reock, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University 

Honorable Joseph Cryan, Chairman, Assembly Education Committee, New Jersey Legislature

Michael Ritacco, Superintendent, Toms River School District 

Gerald Vernotica, Assistant Commissioner for Field Services, New Jersey Department of   Education

Pt 3: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EFFICIENCY MEASURES and SCHOOL FORMULAE

Thomas Corcoran, Co-Director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

David Hespe, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership Department, Rowan University

Gordon MacInnes, Senior Education Policy Expert, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Pt 4: KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- A Long Range View of Education Reform

Hugh B. Price, The Weinberg/Sachs Visiting Professor Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and former President, The National Urban League

Pt 5: PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY & SERVICE DELIVERY

Marc Holzer, Dean, School of Public Affairs & Administration, Rutgers University 

Margaret E. Goertz, Co-director, Consortium for Policy Research in Education and Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.

Vincent E. Giordano,Executive Director, New Jersey Education Association

CLOSING REMARKS

Richard F. Keevey, Director, Policy Research Institute for the Region,  Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Michael Vrancik, Director of Governmental Relations, New Jersey School Boards Association