Carnegie Corporation Hosts Education Forum to Examine The Educational Platforms of the Bush and Gore Campaigns

Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, hosted a conversation between two leading education advisors to the Bush and Gore campaigns on Friday, October 13 at the Corporation's headquarters in New York City.

Speaking on behalf of the Gore-Lieberman campaign was Dr. Elaine Kamarck, Al Gore's chief domestic policy advisor and co-creator with the Vice President of the National Performance Review, the well-known policy council established to reinvent government. Representing the Bush-Cheney campaign was Mr. Sandy Kress, a partner in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Field of Austin and Dallas. Mr. Kress played a pivotal role as president of the board of trustees of the Dallas Public Schools and currently serves under appointment by Governor George W. Bush on the Education Commission of the States. The discussion was moderated by Gene Maeroff, founding director of the Hechinger Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. The Hechinger Institute studies the impact of media on state and national education policy.

Below is a gallery of photos taken at the gathering.

Sandy Kress, George W. Bush education advisor, with Gene Maeroff	Elaine C. Kamarck, Chief Domestic Policy Advisor for Al Gore
Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York, with Kress, Maeroff and Kamarck	Kress, Maeroff and Kamarck
Moderator Gene Maeroff, Founding Director, Hechinger Institute, Teachers College	Augusta Kappner, President, Bank Street College
James Kelly, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards	John Merrow, President, Learning Matters
Ned Regan, President, Baruch College, City University of New York	Warren Simmons, Director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University
Ramon Cortines, Executive Director, PEW Network on School Reform, Harvard University	Sandy Kress
Elaine C. Kamarck with Sara Hebel, Reporter, Chronicle of Higher Education