WEDNESDAY, MAY 2

       THURSDAY, MAY 3

           FRIDAY, MAY 4

      SATURDAY, MAY 5

1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

WELCOME & ORIENTATION

Mike Usdan, Betty Hale, and Hunter Moorman, IEL

1:15 p.m. –2:00 p.m.

“EQUITY, STATE POLICY, & NATIONAL LEADERSHIP”

Brenda Welburn, Executive Director, National Assoc. of State Boards of Education

2:00 p.m. –2:30 p.m.

AFFINITY GROUPS

2:30 p.m. –2:45 p.m.

BREAK & SNACK

2:45 – 3:45 p.m.

“ASSESSING THE NEW FEDERALISM: NATIONAL-STATE POLICY DEVOLUTION”

Panel

3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

BREAK

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

“REALITIES OF POLICY, POLITICS, AND PROCEDURES INSIDE THE U.S. CONGRESS”

Judy Schneider, Senior Analyst, Congressional Research Service

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

RECEPTION

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

OPTIONAL DC-HOST SCAVENGER HUNT

(Dirksen Senate Office Building suggested)

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

“DEMOGRAPHICS AND EDUCATION POLICY”

Harold "Bud" Hodgkinson, Co-Director, IEL Center for Demographic Policy

10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

STATE SITE HILL DAY

(including site dinners)

7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

DESSERT & COFFEE RECEPTION

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

THE CAPITOL STEPS

A satirical political review

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

“WASHINGTON FROM THE INSIDE OUT”

Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

CONCURRENT PANELS

(1) Technology and Public Policy Leadership

(2) ESEA/IDEA Collaboration

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

BREAK & SNACK

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

CONCURRENT DIALOGUES 

11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

WORKING LUNCH & AFFINITY GROUPS

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT PANELS

(1) State Leadership in Technology Policy

(2) Federal Education Reform Legislation

(3) Toward a National Children’s Policy?

Break and Travel to National Press Club

3:15 p.m. –4:45 p.m.

“UNDERSTANDING THE FEDERAL BUDGET”

Stan Collender, Sr. VP, Fleishman-Hillard

4:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

OPTIONAL TOURS

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - Noon

DIALOGUE AND THE LEADER’S TOOLKIT

Mark Gerzon, Campaign for Common Ground

Noon - 12:30 p.m.

SYNTHESIS AND WRAPPING IT UP

Betty Hale and Hunter Moorman, IEL

12:30 p.m.

ADJOURN