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SAVE THE DATE Rutgers University Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA)joins The Garden State Coalition of Schools and New Jersey Coalition for Special Education Funding Reform In Co-Sponsoring:
Promoting Excellence: Best Practice in Special Education & the Funding Frameworks to Support it
Featuring Bruce Baker, University of Kansas AND Robert Pasternack, former Director of Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
SAVE THE DATE Oct 7th
Note: Per D.O.E. accountability regulations, registrations for this forum must be on your September board meeting agenda, 2 weeks in advance of the forum on 10-7-08.
Rutgers University Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA)
joins
The Garden State Coalition of Schools and
The New Jersey Coalition for Special Education Funding Reform
In Co-Sponsoring:
Promoting Excellence: Best Practice in Special Education & the Funding Frameworks to Support it
Featuring Bruce Baker, University of Kansas
Robert Pasternack, former Director of Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
9:00 – 12:30
Busch College Campus Center
Piscataway NJ
You are cordially invited to join us in a unique collaboration that brings together key stakeholders in New Jersey to help build a foundation of shared information and a national perspective on best practices in special education service delivery and the funding frameworks that support them.
9:00 Welcome
Featured Speakers
Bruce Baker; A Current Look at State Funding Formulas Nationally: The Impact on Special Education
Bruce Baker is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses on school finance policy. Since 2000, Dr. Baker has published over 30 peer reviewed research articles in leading academic journals and law reviews. Baker is author of the recently published Financing Education Systems, from Merrill/Prentice-Hall. He has consulted for state legislatures on the design of state school finance policies in Texas, Missouri, New Jersey and Wyoming, for independent groups in Washington and Illinois and has testified in school finance related constitutional challenges. Dr. Baker's work focuses on costs associated with differences in student educational needs and the design of school funding formulas to meet those needs. Dr. Baker has conducted research on racial disparities in school funding and the intersection between school funding disparities and desegregation.
Robert Pasternack, Ph.D., Best Practices in Special Education: Funding Policies to Support Excellence
Robert Pasternack is the senior vice-president for special education at Voyager Expanded Learning, a leading provider of in-school reading and math intervention programs, and professional development programs being used in more than 1,000 school districts throughout the United States, including New York City, Philadelphia, Richmond, Dallas, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Prior to that, he served in the Bush Administration as assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services. He is a nationally certified school psychologist, certified educational diagnostician, licensed special education teacher for grades K-12 and licensed school administrator. He served as director of special education for the New Mexico State Department of Education. Pasternack has lifelong personal experience with people with disabilities. For nearly 20 years, he has served as the legal guardian for his brother, who was born with Down syndrome.
Registration is limited. $15.00
DETAILED FLYER AND REGISTRATION FORM TO FOLLOW SHORTLY
