KEY PLAYERS IN SHAPING VIRGINIA'S EDUCATION FUTURE
WILL CONVENE JULY 8-9 AT U.VA. 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 20 -- Top education policymakers
will consider the future of education in Virginia during a July 8-9
institute at the University of Virginia.
	During the two-day policy institute, participants will address
the future of both K-12 education and higher education. Sponsored by
the Department of Leadership, Foundations and Policy in U.Va.'s Curry
School of Education, the program will be held in Ruffner Hall
Auditorium.  Among the expected participants are Donald S. Beyer Jr.,
Virginia Lt. Governor; Beverly Sgro, Virginia Secretary of Education;
Arnold R. Oliver, chancellor, Virginia Community College System; and
Elizabeth McClanahan, chair, State Council of Higher Education for
Virginia. Also expected are: Senator John H. Chichester, head, Future
of Higher Education Commission; Delegate William "Ted" Bennett Jr.,
chair, Commission on the Future of Public Education; and Brenda
Edwards, senior research associate and legislative services contact,
among others.  "The forum will allow policymakers and stakeholders to
raise and discuss the defining education issues in Virginia," said
Harold Burbach, professor and chair, Department of Leadership,
Foundations and Policy. 
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June 19, 1997
	Notice to media:  A schedule will be available closer to the
event.  For more information, contact Carol Camp Yeakey, U.Va. Curry
School, at (804) 924-3264.  Television reporters should call our TV
News Office at (804) 924-7550.