Sacramento High Schoolers Perform Play on Teen Suicide at
Education Law Conference
July 23, 2004
The University of Southern Maine will host the eleventh annual
Education Law Conference on the Portland campus beginning
Monday, July 26. About 250 participants are expected from
across the country for the conference designed for educators,
school board members, advocates for children and parents,
school attorneys, and anyone with an interest in state and
federal laws and regulations impact schools.
Workshop topics range from performance pay for teachers to
high-stakes testing, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), "Constitutionally
Protected Prayer in Public Schools," school reform and bullying.
Maine Attorney General Steven G. Rowe will be the noon keynote
speaker in Rooms ABC of Woodbury Campus Center, Portland,
on Monday, July 26. Other speakers of note include: Steve
Wessler, director of USM's Center for the Prevention of Hate
Violence, who will take part in a pre-conference, daylong
session on bias, harassment and hate crimes on Monday, July
26. Judge Roger Gregory, 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals,
will be the Tuesday morning keynote at 9 a.m. in Luther Bonney
Auditorium, Portland.
A highlight of the conference will be a performance of the
latest William Mastrosimone play about teen suicide, "Sleepwalk."
The play will be performed by a troupe of students from Sacramento
(Calif.) High School's drama class at 9 a.m., Thursday, July
29, in Luther Bonney Auditorium. Mastrosimone is the author
of "Bang Bang, You're Dead," a play performed by high school
teens nationwide about school shootings.
The conference is sponsored jointly by the University of
Southern Maine College of Education and Human Development,
the University of Maine School of Law, the University of the
Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and the Commonwealth Educational
Policy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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