The 40th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference will start with a panel on concentrated poverty and racial segregation, on Thursday, February 26, at 1:00 p.m. ET. The panel, The Problem We All Live With: Residential Segregation and Implications for Education and Urban Policy, will include Gustavo Velasquez, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Sherilyn Ifill, President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Richard Rothstein, research associate at the Economic Policy Institute.
What: Panel discussion on residential segregation and implications for education and urban policy
Who: Sherrilyn Ifill, President, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
Richard Rothstein, Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute
Gustavo Velasquez, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Moderator: David Figlio, Northwestern University
When: Thursday, Feb. 26 at 1:00 –2:30 p.m. ET
Where: Washington Marriott Wardman Park
Thurgood Marshall Ballroom
2660 Woodley Road NW
Washington, DC 20008
To RSVP, contact Angie Hull at info@aefpweb.org.