Sept. 24, 1998
Contact: James Cooper
(804) 924-0860

						

							             
BEVERLY SGRO TO DISCUSS PRIVATE SCHOOLS
AT U.VA. EDUCATION FORUM

	Beverly Sgro, former Virginia Secretary of Education, will be
among speakers at the 1998 99 Curry Forum at the University of Virginia
on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 1 p.m.  The forum's theme is "Policy Issues
Affecting Schooling in the United States." 
	Sgro, now head of the Richmond Collegiate School, will
participate in a panel discussion about issues pertaining to private
schooling in the United States.  Other panelists will include Charlotte
Lange, head of St. Gertrude High School, and Dennis Campbell, who heads
Woodberry Forest.
	Sponsored by U.Va.'s Curry School of Education, the panel is one
in a series that focuses on kindergarten-through-grade-12 instruction.
The series, which is free and open to the public, is held Wednesdays
throughout the semester at 1 p.m. in Room 004C of Ruffner Hall.
	For more information, call James Cooper at (804) 924-0860 or
access the course website at http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/forum

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