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The Statewide Public Education Summit included a
representative from each of the Community Dialogue groups, members of the
Research Study Team, as well as key legislators and stakeholders throughout West
Virginia. This one-day conference will enable participants to discuss the
issues, and examine and discuss reports from Community Dialogue groups and the
Research Study Team, while finalizing the process for developing a strategic
plan for a Legislative and Policy Agenda.
The summit envisioned by the Alliance includes a
nationally-recognized speaker on education, as well as opportunities for groups
to discuss local and state-level goals and to review research data. In addition,
a formal report presented by the Research Study Team will be presented to all
participants in a general session. Specific recommendations to address the major
issues identified by the Community Dialogue groups will be presented by the
Research Study Team.
The Alliance foresees that this Statewide Public Education Summit will result in
something that rarely occurs in grassroots efforts –- local people actually
seeing their thoughts and views utilized at the state level to help bring about
systemic change. The issues that will be addressed at the Summit will be those
identified by local people in local communities, who have learned to trust and
respect one another while working on the common, unifying goal of ensuring that
every West Virginia child has quality, caring teaching in his or her classroom.
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