ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUE Unions Shaping Good Schools: Where Every Child Graduates; Every Diploma Reflects Achievement June 4-5, 2007

PARTICIPANTS

Paul E. Almeida President, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees

Karen Aronowitz President, United Teachers of Dade

Brian Baker Professional Issues Director, Texas Federation of Teachers

Barbara Byrd-Bennett School Executive-in-Residence, Cleveland State University; former chief executive officer, Cleveland, Ohio, Municipal School District

Colleen Callahan Director of Professional Issues, Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals

Leo Casey Special Representative for High Schools, United Federation of Teachers

Kathleen Cashin Regional Superintendent, Region 5,

Jean Clements President, Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association

David K. Cohen Collegiate Professor of Education and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan.

Toni Cortese Executive Vice President, American Federation of Teachers,

Rudolph Crew Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Thomas R. Donahue Past President, AFL-CIO

Bob Edwards Host, The Bob Edwards Show; Interim National President, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Marian Flickinger President, Norfolk Federation of Teachers

Benjamin Frisbie Chair, NYSUT Committee on Teacher Centers; Member, NYSUT Board of Directors

Nanciann Gatta Assistant Superintendent, Niles Twp. High School District 219

Milton Goldberg Former Director, Office of Research, U.S. Department of Education

1 Sam Holtzman President, Warwick Teachers Union

Rena Honea Director, Alliance-AFT Education Center, Inc.

Sol Hurwitz Past President, Committee for Economic Development

Susan Moore Johnson Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching & Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Richard Kahlenberg Senior Fellow, Century Foundation

Ted Kirsch President, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Local 3

Nat LaCour Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers

Francine Lawrence President, Toledo Federation of Teachers, Local 250

Sam Leiken (Board meeting/Dinner) Council on Competitiveness

Michael Maccoby President, The Maccoby Group

Herb Magidson Former Vice-President, American Federation of Teachers

Edward McElroy President, American Federation of Teachers

Rick Muir President, Anderson Federation of Teachers/Indiana Federation of Teachers

Dan Montgomery President, North Suburban Teachers Union, Local 1274

Diane Ravitch Research Professor of Education. New York University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Mary Cathryn Ricker President, St. Paul Federation of Teachers

Laura Rico President, ABC Federation of Teachers, Local 2317, Hawaiian Gardens, CA

Gary Smuts Superintendent, ABC Unified School District

Katharine Strunk Stanford University School of Education

John Tarka 2 President, Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers

Adam Urbanski President, Rochester Teachers Association

Randi Weingarten President, United Federation of Teachers (UFT),

Suzanne M. Wilson Chair, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University

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American Federation of Teachers Staff Kris Kemmerer John Mitchell Howard Nelson

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