[Air-l] Dialogue on CA Education Master Plan
Laurie Maak
lauriem at info-ren.org
Tue Apr 23 16:32:45 PDT 2002
Hello all,
I'm new to this list and wanted to share information on a project
that might be of interest to some researchers.
Information Renaissance, a non-profit non-partisan organization,
produces an online public policy dialogues. From June 3-14 we will be
conducting a dialogue on the draft Master Plan for California's
Kindergarten-University education. The plan is being developed by an
18 member Joint Legislative Committee and is based on the
recommendations of seven working groups that have involved over 300
people during the last year. This is the first time a Master Plan for
the state's education has been created.
The two-week moderated dialogue will focus on selected
recommendations in the draft plan. Each day a panel of policy and
subject experts will join the discussion. Members of the Joint
Committee, Working Groups and representatives of the Governors'
office, the Department of Education and the Board of Education are
being invited to join the dialogue.
Participants are being recruited through many channels-online and
traditional media. We are announcing the discussion through the state
League of Women Voters, PTA, major education organizations, and many
other groups. Staff for the Joint Committee is handling relations
with the press. We anticipate there will be a great deal of interest
in the dialogue. A registration form will gather demographics on
participants.
Discussion summaries will provide an overview of the main points
covered each day. Daily survey forms based on the summaries will
capture the views of the larger group, both discussants and observers.
Info Ren has conducted six similar dialogues, on the E-Rate, Social
Security Reform, Money and Politics, and two for the U.S. EPA. The
last discussion for the US EPA was on the agency's revision of its
Public Involvement Policy. EPA recently won an E-Gov 2002 Explorer
Award in recognition of that effort.
The dialogue on the CA Education Master Plan will be a great
opportunity to learn more about online communication from the
perspectives of leadership and collaboration, public policy, public
participation, group dynamics, etc.
The Web site will be open after May 1st: http://www.network-democracy.org/camp
Please contact me if you are interested in more information about the
dialogue for research purposes.
Laurie Maak
Dialogue Producer
Information Renaissance
510-527-6474
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