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 Education Speaker's Page

The experts listed below are available to speak to your group on a wide variety of education topics. Please contact the speaker of your choice at the address/phone shown. Arrangements for fees or expenses should be made directly with the speaker.

Speaker's Home State

California
District of Columbia
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Virginia

Specialty Topics

Affirmative Action: Volokh
Agency Fee Issues: Hunter, Kirkpatrick
Alternative Education/Certification: Kirkpatrick
Charter Schools: Haar, Kirkpatrick
Church-state Issues: Volokh
Collective Bargaining: See Teacher Unions
Competitive Education Industry: Haar, Lieberman
Cost of Education: Lieberman, Kirkpatrick, Berthoud
Cultural Issues: Farris, Klicka
History of Education: Kirkpatrick
Home Schooling: Farris, Klicka, Kirkpatrick
Independent Teacher Organizations: Hunter, Kirkpatrick
Labor in Education: See Teacher Unions
Legal/Legislative Issues: Hunter, Berthoud, Klicka

National Standards/National Testing: Farris, Klicka
Parent Issues: Haar, Kirkpatrick, Klicka
Politics in Education: Haar, Kirkpatrick, Berthoud
Privatization in Education: Lieberman
Private Scholarship Programs: Lieberman, Kirkpatrick
School Choice: Lieberman, Mellor, Kirkpatrick, Berthoud, Klicka
School-based Health Clinics: Kirkpatrick
Social Issues: Farris, Klicka
Tax Payer Issues: Berthoud, Farris
Teacher Unions: Lieberman, Hunter, Kirkpatrick, Berthoud
Technology in Education: Kirkpatrick, Berthoud
Tuition Tax Credits: Kirkpatrick, Klicka
Vouchers: See School Choice

Contact Info

Specialty Topics

Fees

California

Eugene Volokh
UCLA Law School
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: (310) 206-3926
Fax: (310) 206-6489
volokh@law.ucla.edu

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.

Prefers to limit speaking engagements to West L.A. and the San Fernando Valley areas of California.

Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.

District of Columbia

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

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

Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.


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

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

Negotiable, but prefers flat fee which includes travel.


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

Speaks on:

  • School Choice
  • Vouchers

Finances and travel negotiable on a case by case basis.

Michigan

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

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

Finances and travel negotiable on a case by case basis.

Pennsylvania

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

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

Fee is negotiable, depending on distance & number of days involved, size of audience, etc., plus expenses.

Virginia

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

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.

Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.


Michael Farris
President
Home School Legal Defense Association
P.O. Box 3000
Purcellville, VA 20134
Phone: 540-338-5600
Fax: 540-338-9333

Speaks on:

  • Home schooling
  • Tax payer issues
  • National standards
  • Tuition tax credits
  • Social issues in education
  • Culture wars in education

Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.


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

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

Honorarium negotiable. Travel reimbursement.

 

See File

Education Policy Institute, PMB 294, 4401-A Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008-2322 202/244-7535, Fax 202/244-7584 http://www.educationpolicy.org, revised 7/1/99