Friday, January 8, 2010, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.  

The AALS Section on Education Law will hold its program on Friday, January 8, 2010 from 10:30 am-12:15 pm and is soliciting papers to be presented at its program.  The program is entitled “Five Years After Katrina: Access To Education.”

What has New Orleans – and indeed, the rest of the United States – learned about education in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? 

In August of 2005, one of recorded history’s most powerful hurricanes hit New Orleans, and the days that followed included flooding that damaged or destroyed much of the city’s infrastructure and systems.  Forced to rebuild – indeed, reimagine – the New Orleans school system, the state instituted dramatic reforms, including school choice, greater accountability, and the creation of charter schools for the majority of students.

Five years later, what have we learned?  Is the New Orleans school system working, and working better?  Is the role of the state appropriate, versus local control?  Are these reforms best for all students, or just those in primary or secondary schools?  Have these reforms fully accommodated students with special needs and disabilities?  And have these reforms created a model for the rest of the country? 

DEADLINE:  Submissions must be received by November 1, 2009.
 
SUBMISSIONS: Submit an abstract of the paper to be presented to Mark Bauer at mbauer@law.stetson.edu or to:

Mark Bauer
Associate Dean of Academics and Associate Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law
1401 61st Street South
Gulfport, FL  33707

Please address any questions to Mark Bauer via email, or by telephone at (727) 562-7861.

SELECTION AND PUBLICATION:  Papers will be selected by members of the AALS Section on Education Law.  Authors will be notified of the selection results once the deadline has passed.  Authors whose papers are selected will present their work at the Education Law Section meeting held in New Orleans on January 8th.  The selected papers will be published in the Journal of Law & Education, published jointly by the University of South Carolina Law Center and the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.

All accepted papers will be due to the Journal by August 1, 2010, for publication in the January 2011 issue.