The Coalition for Community Schools presents their 2012 National Forum next week in San Francisco, May 9-12. This year’s theme is “Scaling up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy.”
National Equity Project Executive Director LaShawn Routé Chatmon will serve on Thursday’s Lunch Plenary Panel discussing “The Role of Community Schools in Moving an Equity Agenda in America.” Angela Blackwell, CEO of PolicyLink will present opening remarks; co-panelists include:
- Ira Harkavy, Netter Center for Community Partnerships at UPenn
- Francisco Guajardo, University of Texas
- Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council
Registration is still open, visit http://www.communityschools.org/2012nationalforum.aspx for more information.
Related reading: Martin J. Blank, President of the Institute for Education Leadership posted this article on Huffington Post: “All Hands on Deck for Community Schools.”
P.S. I’ve been urged to put a face to my previous blog postings as thenationalequityproject. So here I am. 
I also manage our Facebook and Twitter accounts. I’ll be in attendance and will post my take-aways after next week’s event.
