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Please join AEI scholar Frederick M. Hess for an off-the-record luncheon discussion of urban school reform on Monday, June 13. Mr. Hess will present his new book Urban School Reform: Lessons from San Diego (Harvard Education Press, April 2005).

In 1998, U.S. district attorney for Southern California Alan Bersin was hired to run the San Diego City Schools. This June, he will depart San Diego as the nation's longest-serving big-city superintendent and become California's next education secretary. During Bersin's tumultuous tenure, he achieved national prominence for his blunt challenge to the teachers' union and his ambitious efforts to reshape the nation's eighth-largest school system. Last September, Mr. Hess led a comprehensive effort to examine the Bersin reforms, culminating in Urban School Reform: Lessons from San Diego.

Mr. Hess, director of education policy studies, and contributing author Jane Hannaway of the Urban Institute will begin a frank discussion of the practical lessons that San Diego holds for policy makers and urban school reformers across the nation.