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The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History and the Constitutional Rights Foundation will host a Chicago Civic Education Roundtable, May 13, at the Standard Club.

Dozens of representatives from several Chicago area colleges, universities, and public and private  schools,  as well as organizations dedicated to strengthening civic education, will participate in the program, which begins with a lunch at noon .

Featured speaker will be the Honorable Marjorie Rendell, first lady of Pennsylvania and a member of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Rendell is one of the nation’s

Judge Rendell

leading advocates for civic education. She is a member of the National Advisory Council of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools and is a lead partner of the Pennsylvania Coalition for Representative Democracy. Her remarks, “Does Civic Education Matter?” will be followed by panel discussions addressing the need to strengthen civic education at the K-12 level, at the college level, and concluding  with a sharing of ideas regarding recommendations and priorities going forward.

For more information, contact Mike Deshaies, at mdeshaies@gojmc.org., or tel. 484-436-2067.