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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The City Club of San Diego and the Independent Voter Network Proudly Present:
The Honorable Tom Daschle
Former Majority Leader, United States Senate
Author of & Speaking on: “The U.S. Senate: Fundamentals of American Government”
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The City Club of San Diego and the Independent Voter Network Proudly Present:
A Dialogue on Public Schools
Featuring Richard Lee Colvin, Paula Cordeiro and Alan Bersin, with Scott Himelstein as Moderator
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The City Club of San Diego and the Independent Voter Network Proudly Present:
The Honorable Alan Bersin
Assistant Secretary for International Affairs & Chief Diplomatic Officer, Department of Homeland Security, United States of America
Speaking on: “The Future of Immigration”
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The City Club of San Diego & DLA Piper Proudly Present:
The Honorable Tom Daschle – Former Majority Leader, United States Senate
Author of & Speaking on: “The U.S. Senate: Fundamentals of American Government”
6:00 PM Reception & Program
Athens Market
109 West “F” Street – Downtown San Diego (across from Horton Plaza)
City Club Members & DLA Piper Attorneys & Clients: $30; all others, $45 (price includes autographed copy of Senator Daschle’s book)
Reservations: 619-235-4041; email: cityclubofsandiego@prodigy.net
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Biographical Brief – Tom Daschle
 A Representative and a Senator from South Dakota; born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, December 9, 1947; attended private and public schools; graduated South Dakota State University 1969; served in the United States Air Force 1969-1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978 and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1987); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1986; reelected in 1992 and 1998 and served from January 3, 1987, to January 3, 2005; co-chair, Democratic Policy Committee, Democratic Conference (1989-1999); minority leader (1995-June 6, 2001; 2003-2005); majority leader (June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003);
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The City Club of San Diego and the University of San Diego`s Center for Education Policy and Law Proudly Present:
A Dialogue on Public Schools - Featuring Richard Lee Colvin, Paula Cordeiro and Alan Bersin, with Scott Himelstein as Moderator
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Warren Auditorium - Rosalie Hall, University of San Diego
This is a free public event.
Copies of "Tilting at Windmills" will be available for sale and signing
RSVP: cityclubsd@gmail.com or 619-235-4041
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A book that draws equally on Richard Lee Colvin`s deep acquaintance with contemporary education reform and the unique circumstances of the San Diego experience, "Tilting at Windmills" is a penetrating and invaluable account of Alan Bersin`s contentious superintendency.
Between 1998, when Alan Bersin became superintendent of the San Diego school system, and 2005, when he left that post, San Diego undertook a sustained and notably ambitious effort to reform its public school system. Bersin`s efforts were controversial from the start, both within San Diego and throughout the United States. Yet everyone agreed that the San Diego story was an immensely important one - and that it was a harbinger of reform efforts to come throughout the United States.
As an early and ambitious instance of the types of reforms that by now have been implemented in city schools across the nation, San Diego has received scattered attention within the scholarly and policy worlds. Yet till now there has been no comprehensive account of Bersin`s tenure and the reforms he undertook during those seven stormy years. "Tilting at Windmills" fills that gap.
A book that draws equally on Richard Lee Colvin`s deep acquaintance with contemporary education reform and the unique circumstances of the San Diego experience, "Tilting at Windmills" is a penetrating and invaluable account of Bersin`s contentious superintendency. At the heart of Colvin`s research are years of interviews with Bersin, who granted Colvin unprecedented insight into his experiences and thoughts about the reforms he initiated. The result is a detailed and nuanced narrative of the reform process in San Diego and its relationship to comparable school reform efforts throughout the country.
The definitive account of the San Diego story, "Tilting at Windmills" is also a crucial contribution to our more general understanding of the education reforms that have swept the nation during the past fifteen years.
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Praise
Change is complicated, especially when it involves power politics, a defensive status quo, and a bona fide attempt to significantly transform teaching and learning throughout an entire school district. Richard Lee Colvin looks at the reforms unleashed by San Diego Schools Superintendent Alan Bersin from the perspective of the change-agent leader. It is a fascinating vantage point that sheds tremendous light on how things really work within public education. - Joe Williams, director, Democrats for Education Reform
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Anyone interested in knowing what education reform and the struggles to achieve it actually look like at the ground level should read this book. Most everything else I read is baloney; this is the real deal. - Michael Casserly, executive director, Council of the Great City Schools
Richard Lee Colvin – Biographical Brief
Richard Lee Colvin is the former executive director of Education Sector and a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. |
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The City Club of San Diego, The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce & San Diego/Tijuana Smart Border Coalition Proudly Present:
The Honorable Alan Bersin - Assistant Secretary for International Affairs & Chief Diplomatic Officer, Department of Homeland Security, United States of America
Speaking on: “The Future of Immigration”
12-Noon Luncheon & Program
San Diego Hall of Champions - Balboa Park
2131 Pan American Plaza
City Club & Chamber Members: $30, all others $45
Phone Reservations: 619-235-4041, email cityclubofsandiego@prodigy.net
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Biographical Brief – Alan Bersin
Alan Bersin commenced service as Assistant Secretary of International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the Department of Homeland Security on January 3, 2012. In that capacity, he oversees the Department’s international engagement and serves as the principal advisor to Secretary Janet Napolitano on all international affairs. In 2012, Bersin was elected to the Executive Board of Interpol for a three year term as Vice President of the Americas. Previously, in 2010-2011, Bersin served as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection where he oversaw the operations of CBP’s 58,000-employee work force and managed an operating budget of more than $12 billion geared to protecting the nation’s borders from all threats while expediting lawful trade and travel.
In 2009, Bersin served as Assistant Secretary and Special Representative for Border Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security. In that capacity, he served as Secretary Napolitano’s lead representative on border affairs and strategy regarding security, immigration, narcotics, and trade matters as well as for coordinating the Secretary’s security initiatives on the nation’s Southwest Border with Mexico.
Prior to this service, Bersin served as Chairman of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, appointed by San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders in December 2006, and confirmed by the San Diego City Council. Previously, Mr. Bersin served as California’s Secretary of Education between July 2005 and December 2006 in the Administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gov. Schwarzenegger also appointed Mr. Bersin to the State Board of Education, where he served until 2009 as a member confirmed by the California State Senate. Between 1998 and 2005, he served as Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego where he launched a major reorganization of the district to focus its resources strategically on instruction and to modernize its business infrastructure in order to support teaching and learning in the classroom. In a related capacity statewide, Mr. Bersin served between 2000 and 2003 as a member and then Chairman of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Prior to becoming the leader of the nation’s eighth largest urban school district, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California and confirmed in that capacity by the U.S. Senate. Mr. Bersin served as U.S. Attorney for nearly five years and as the Attorney General’s Southwest Border Representative responsible for coordinating federal law enforcement on the border from South Texas to Southern California.
Before commencing his career in public service, Mr. Bersin was a senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, where he served on the firm’s policy and compensation committees, chaired the committee overseeing the firm’s extensive program of pro bono legal services, and was principally responsible for developing the firm’s innovative paralegal program. At Munger, Tolles & Olson, Mr. Bersin specialized in complex RICO, securities, commercial and insurance litigation before state and federal trial and appellate courts. He is a member of the California and Alaska bars.
Other professional experience includes employment as Special Counsel to the Los Angeles Police Commission, as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of Southern California Law Center, and as a Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. Mr. Bersin served as a member of the Board of Overseers for Harvard University (2004-2010) and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.
In 1968, Mr. Bersin received his A.B. in Government from Harvard University (magna cum laude). He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society and awarded post-graduate scholarships by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Football Hall of Fame. While at Harvard, Mr. Bersin was selected as a member of the All-Ivy, All-New England and All-East football teams and was inducted in 1995 into the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame. From 1969 to 1971, Mr. Bersin attended Balliol College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1974, he received his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School. Mr. Bersin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (Honorary) by the University of San Diego in 1994, by California Western School of Law in 1996, and by the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2000. He is fluent in Spanish.
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