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Events 2004 April

Renewing Our Schools, Securing Our Future

April 22, 2004

John D. Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress, and Robert L. Borosage, president of the Institute for America's Future, are proud to announce the formation of a task force of prominent Americans committed to excellence in public education. Please join them for a lunch featuring remarks by task force co-chairs Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Philip D. Murphy, senior director of Goldman Sachs.

A Task Force on Public Education for the 21st Century

April 22, 2004, 12:00am – 12:00am
The Center for American Progress and the Institute for America's Future have created a national task force to ensure excellence in public education – co-chaired by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Philip Murphy, senior director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc= and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and former Washington, D.C. School Board member Roger Wilkins. The task force will engage business, public policy and community leaders in a national series of major public hearings and will consider several areas: