California Education Reform
Separate and Unequal: Funding for Failure in California Public Schools
Track 1: Patricia Gandara(Intro)
Patricia Gándara is associate director of the Linguistic Minority
Research Institute at UC-Davis and has authored books and articles on such
subjects as peer-group influence and college-going behavior of low-income
Latino and other ethnic minority students.
pcgandara@ucdavis.edu
http://lmri.ucsb.edu/about/biopgs/biogandara.htm
Track 2: Mark Sommer
Track 3: Patricia Gandara
Track 4: Mark Baldassare
Mark Baldassare is director of research and senior fellow at the Public
Policy Institute of California, and directs a large-scale public opinion
project profiling social, economic and political forces at work in California
elections and in shaping the state’s public policies.
baldassare@ppic.org
Track 5: Norton Grubb
W. Norton Grubb who has a doctorate in economics from Harvard, is now
the David Gardner Chair in Higher Education at UC-Berkeley. His research
interests encompass a variety of topics in the economics of education,
and his books include Honored But Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching
in Community Colleges and The Roles of Evaluation for Education and Training:
Plain Talk on the Field of Dreams.
wngrubb@uclink.berkeley.edu
Track 6: Paul Bressoud
Paul Bressoud is a history teacher and union leader at Eureka High School
in Northern California.
bressoudp@eurekacityschools.org
Track 7: Sehba Zhumkhwala & Rosita Martinez
Sehba Zhumkhawala is founder and director of Knowledge Is Power Program
Heartwood Academy in San Jose, a tuition-free, open-enrollment public middle
school that has outperformed both the state and the district on the standardized
state tests by a dramatic degree.
szhumkhawala@kippheartwood.org
Pam Martinez is co-founder of Padres Unidos which was born out of a struggle
at Valverde Elementary School in Denver in which parents removed a principal
for refusing to stop forcing Mexican children to eat their lunches from
the cafeteria floor as a form of punishment. Through Padres and its youth
initiative, Jovenes Unidos, students, parents and families learn that the
public schools have always been a reflection of the broader contradictions
in American society.
pam_martinez@hotmail.com
Track 8: Bill Hauck
William Hauck is a trustee and board finance committee chair of the California
State University system as well as president of the California Business
Roundtable, whose mission is to improve the state’s business climate
through the direct involvement of private sector CEOs to identify and influence
public policy. He has been a top aide to a Republican California governor
and two Democratic speakers of the California State Assembly.
Track 9: Mark Sommer
Track 10: Patricia Gandara(Outro)