Day 3: Tuesday, July 24

Program and speakers subject to change. Check back often for updates.

Registration		7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Morning Devotion (optional)		7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

The National Imperative for Preparing All Children for School and Building a Public Education System That Prepares All Children and Our Nation for the Future		8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Learn why more than 80 percent of Black and Latino children are unable to read and do math at grade level in 4th, 8th, or 12th grade if they have not already dropped out of school. Discover what it will take to close the daunting achievement gap in and out of school.

Mini-Plenary Sessions and Workshops		10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Dig deeper into the contributing factors that created the pipeline to prison and explore successful strategies to replace it with a path to academic achievement and successful adulthood.

Ending the Cradle to Prison Pipeline™ and Mass Incarceration – the New American Jim Crow		1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Explore strategies to dismantle the Cradle to Prison Pipeline and the toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparities and massive incarceration that is sentencing millions of children to dead end, powerless and hopeless lives and threatens to undermine the past half century of racial and social progress. Learn what strategies work to replace the prison pipeline with a pipeline to college and productive work.

Mini-Plenary Sessions and Workshops		4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Dig deeper to explore promising approaches and community engagement and capacity building strategies to ensure every child the education needed to survive and thrive in this global economy.

Saving Democracy: Creating One America		7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Come hear about the democracy our children will inherit, which is increasingly threatened by educational disparities, resegregation in our schools, and widespread voter suppression. Learn the actions you can take to rescue the dream for all children.