Contact Info
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Specialty Topics
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Fees
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California
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Eugene
Volokh
UCLA Law School
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: (310) 206-3926
Fax: (310) 206-6489
volokh@law.ucla.edu
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Speaks on:
- Affirmative action/quotas
- Church-state issues of school choice
Recent publications:
"Equal Treatment Is Not Establishment," 13 Notre
Dame J. of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 341
(1999).
"Vouchers Mean Equality, not Preference or
Discrimination," N.J. Jewish News, Nov. 19,
1998.
"Equal Treatment: How Best to Separate Church and State,"
printed in the L.A. Daily News and the
Fresno Bee, July 20, 1998; the Orange
County Register, the Las Vegas Review
Journal, the St. Petersburg Times, the
Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian, and the
Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette, July 19, 1998;
and Intellectual Capital, April/May 1998, p. 8.
"Finally, Equality for Religious Schools,"
Cleveland Plain-Dealer, June 30, 1997, p. 9B.
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Prefers to limit speaking engagements to West L.A. and
the San Fernando Valley areas of California.
Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.
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District
of Columbia
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Charlene
K. Haar, Author
President
Education Policy
Institute
4401-A Connecticut Ave., NW, PMB 294
Washington, D.C. 20008-2322
Phone: 202-244-7535
Fax: 202/244-7584
sdchar@aol.com
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Speaks on:
- Parent involvement through affiliation with the
National PTA and advantages of organizing independent
parent organizations
- Parent involvement and the teacher unions
- Political activities of teacher unions (NEA and AFT)
- Advantages of a competitive education industry
- Charter schools
Recent books:
PTA: The Untold Story (to be published in
2000)
The
NEA and AFT: Teacher Unions in Power and Politics
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Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.
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Dr.
Myron Lieberman, Chairman
Education Policy
Institute
4401-A Connecticut Ave., NW, PMB 294
Washington, D.C. 20008-2322
Phone: 202-244-7535
Fax: 202/244-7584
lieberman@education
policy.org
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Speaks on:
- Labor relations; collective bargaining and teacher
union contracts; all aspects of teacher unionism
- Terms and conditions of teacher employment
- School choice; privatization and contracting out;
advantages of a competitive education industry; private
scholarships.
Recent books:
Teachers Evaluating Teachers: Peer Review and the
New Unionism
The Teacher Unions
Handbook on School Board/Union Relations
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Negotiable, but prefers flat fee which includes travel.
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William
H. Mellor
President & General Counsel
Institute for Justice
1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-955-1300
Fax: 202-955-1329
Contact: Mark Lehman
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Speaks on:
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Finances and travel negotiable on a case by case basis.
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Michigan
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Robert P. Hunter
Director of Labor Policy
Mackinac Center for Public
Policy
140 W. Main St.
Midland, MI 48640
Phone: 517-631-0900
Fax: 517-631-0964
Hunter@Mackinac.org
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Speaks on:
- Education and labor issues
- Legal and legislative in education
- Agency fee issues
- Collective bargaining/labor relations
- Independent teacher organizations
Recent publications:
Michigan Labor Law:What Every Citizen Should Know;
Paycheck Protection in Michigan
Compulsoy Union Dues in Michigan
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Finances and travel negotiable on a case by case basis.
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Pennsylvania
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David W.
Kirkpatrick
2323 Rudy Road
Harrisburg, PA 17104-2025
Phone: 717-232-2146
Fax: 717-232-2164
tchrwrtr@aol.com
http://www.schoolreport.com
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Speaks on:
- Agency fees
- Alternative education
- Alternative certification
- Charter schools
- Collective bargaining
- Cost of education
- History of education
- Home schooling
- Independent teacher organizations
- School choice/vouchers
- Parent involvement
- Politics of education
- Private scholarship programs
- School based health clinics
- Teacher unions
- Tuition tax credits
- Technology in education
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Fee is negotiable, depending on distance & number of
days involved, size of audience, etc., plus expenses.
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Virginia
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John Berthoud,
Ph.D.
President
National Taxpayers
Union
108 North Alfred Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-683-5700
Fax: 703-683-5722
ntu@ntu.org
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Speaks on:
- Cost of education
- Legislative Issues in School Choice
- Politics of education
- School Choice
- Taxpayer Issues
- Teacher unions: NEA and AFT
- Technology in education
- Federal Budget
- Education spending
- State and local budgeting
Recent publications:
"Opposing Tax Relief: The Big-Government Agenda,"
Alexandria, VA: The National Taxpayers Union Foundation,
NTU Foundation Issue Brief 108, October 2,
1998.
"Real Reform of American Politics," Alexandria, VA: The
National Taxpayers Union Foundation, NTU Foundation
Issue Brief 107, September 4, 1998.
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Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.
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Michael
Farris
President
Home School Legal Defense
Association
P.O. Box 3000
Purcellville, VA 20134
Phone: 540-338-5600
Fax: 540-338-9333
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Speaks on:
- Home schooling
- Tax payer issues
- National standards
- Tuition tax credits
- Social issues in education
- Culture wars in education
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Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.
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Christopher
J. Klicka
Executive Director
The National
Center for Home Education
PO Box 3000
Purcellville, VA 20134
Contact: Dana Henry
Phone: 540-338-7600
Fax: 540-338-9333
Contact: Dana Henry
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Speaks on:
- Legal and legislative issues in education
- Social and cultural issues in education
- Home schooling generally
- Home schooling laws in the fifty states/home
schooling legal issues
- Legislative issues in school choice
- Tuition tax credits
- Vouchers
- Voluntary national test
- Parental involvement in education
Recent publications:
The
Right Choice: Home Schooling
The
Right to Home School: A Guide to the Law on Parents' Rights
in Education
Home
Schooling in the United States: A Legal Analysis
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Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.
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