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Moderator, Scott Henderson, and panelists, Lorraine DeJong,
Molly Mitchell Spearman, Secretary Riley,
Jo Anne Anderson, Harvey Choplin |
What's
Money Got To Do With It?
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 7 P.M.
Shaw Hall, Younts Conference Center
The Riley Institute
at Furman University presented a nonpartisan panel discussion involving
some of the top leaders and innovators in South Carolina’s
education field, including former Governor and U.S. Secretary of
Education Richard Riley. To view panel participants and their biographies,
click here.
Realizing that
public education is a fundamentally important issue to the state
of South Carolina, and in the hope of building upon the discussion
created by the newly released Riley Institute Hewlett study of public
education, the Advance Team, a group of student volunteers who assist
the Riley Institute staff with the planning and implementation of
events, has decided to host a panel on poverty and public education
in South Carolina.
The goal of
our panel was to facilitate dialogue and deliberation on how to
address the poverty within South Carolina’s educational system,
not just on the I-95 corridor, where poverty is prevalent, but also
across all of the state. We believe this panel was an important
step in raising awareness and effecting change on the issues that
currently impact our state’s education system.
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Lorna
Fink, a member of the Riley Advance Team, opens the panel
discussion
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Scott Henderson, Associate Professor of Education at Furman
University |
Panelists:
(l-r) Lorraine DeJong, Molly Mitchell Spearman, Secretary
Riley,
Jo Anne Anderson, Harvey Choplin |
Harvey Choplin, retired Traveler's Rest High School Principal |
Lorraine DeJong, Associate Professor of Education at Furman
University |
The panel addressing students and community members |
Jo Anne Anderson, Executive Director of the South Carolina Education
Oversight
Committee |
Molly
Mitchell Spearman, Executive Director, South Carolina Association
of
School Administrators (SCASA) |
Panel discussion |
Secretary Riley, former U.S. secretary of education (1993–2001)
and
former governor of South Carolina (1979–1987). |
Harvey Choplin |
Secretary Riley |
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