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Detailed Agenda
SATURDAY | JULY 25, 2015

8:00 AM–8:30 AM
BREAKFAST
Grand Ballroom

8:30 AM–9:30 AM
EMPOWERING AND EDUCATING COMMUNITIES
SERVING STUDENTS FROM CRADLE TO CAREER
Grand Ballroom

This panel will focus on approaches to education that support children and families
from early childhood through professional life. The discussion will cover parent and
community engagement, as well as issues of equity in opportunity and achievement.
It will look at alternatives to high-stakes testing, wraparound services, and discipline
reforms for improved student outcomes.
Melvin Carter

Minnesota Department of Education Office of Early Education
Melvin W. Carter III was appointed director of the Office of Early Learning
at the Minnesota Department of Education in July 2013. Prior to joining
the department, Carter served on the Saint Paul City Council from 2008
to 2013. In that capacity, he sponsored legislation to address some of
the city’s most pressing issues, including forming the city’s Department
of Human Rights & Equal Economic Opportunity, “banning the box” to
eliminate employment discrimination against people with criminal backgrounds, requiring landlords to notify tenants of a pending foreclosure on
their property, and prohibiting the sale of candy cigarettes and toy lighters
to reduce “practice smoking” among children. In 2009, he created a partnership between city, county,
school, and grassroots leaders to support high quality education outcomes which later became the
Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood. He has trained with and for several national organizations, including Wellstone Action, People For the American Way Foundation, Black Organizing for Leadership &
Dignity, and Progressive Majority. For his committed service to community, Carter received the 2011
Barbara Jordan Leadership Award from the Young Elected Officials Network and was recognized in
Ebony Magazine’s “30 Under 30” issue in 2008.

Center for Popular Democracy
Evie Frankl is the Senior Organizer of Education Justice Campaigns at
the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). She works with CPD’s partner
organizations to create and promote a progressive education agenda.
Frankl brings decades of education experience to CPD. She has led an
educational equity coalition to end tracking in Montgomery County,
MD and served as deputy director at The Next Step Public Charter
School in Washington, DC. Frankl worked as a high school teacher at
Bell Multicultural High School and she served as a bus driver during
desegregation busing in Boston.

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