March 5, 2008
ISBE DELL e-Broadcast 2008.95 - Illinois Kids Count
Symposium Announcement, March 28, 2008
Dear Educators Serving Children:
This is announcement is being forwarded to you by the
Division of English Language Learning.
The Illinois Kids Count Symposium will feature numerous
policy experts, advocates and academics who will discuss
how public policy has profoundly changed children's lives.
Speakers will reflect on the well-being of children over
the last 20 years and will look forward to how public
policies will impact the lives of the next generation
of kids.
Keynote speaker: Mike Lawrence, director of the Paul
Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University
Plenary speakers will include:
- Harriet Meyer, president of the Ounce of Prevention
Fund
- Sylvia Puente, director at the Institute for Latino
Studies at the University of Notre Dame
- Jesse Ruiz, chairman of the Illinois State Board
of Education
- Maria Whelan, president of Action for Children
Symposium agenda:
Plenary I: Looking Back Over the Last 20 Years
Workshops:
- Health
- Education
- Family Economic Security
- Children and Youth
at Risk
- Urban Communities
- Children and New American
Families
Plenary II: Looking Forward to the Next Generation
Kids Count Symposium
Building Better Lives for Generations of Illinois Children
Friday, March 28, 2008
8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. (lunch included)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 S. LaSalle St.
Chicago, IL 60604
Register at http://action.voiceshub.org/ct/Ud3tCZp1ORqG/ for
this highly informative event before space runs out!
For workshop descriptions and to register for the Symposium,
visit www.voices4kids.org
http://action.voiceshub.org/ct/U73tCZp1ORqF/
or call 312-456-0600. There is no charge. |
