San Francisco Desegregation

Paragraph 44 Independent Consent Decree Monitoring Team

(Updated August 2000)

Stuart Biegel - Consent Decree Monitor for the State of California

Stuart Biegel has been a member of the education community for over 30 years, and a member of the legal community for the past 15. He currently specializes in the interrelated areas of law, educational policy, and information studies. Biegel began his career as a classroom teacher in Los Angeles, teaching both elementary and secondary classes in public and private schools for 15 years. He then joined the teacher education faculty at the UCLA Graduate School of Education, where he served as Assistant Director of Teacher Education (1989-1993), and Director of Teacher Education (1993-1995).

After being admitted to the California bar, Biegel developed an expertise in Education Law. He has published numerous articles in this area, including an exploration of Fourteenth Amendment rights (Cornell Law Review), an overview of church-state issues (American Journal of Education, University of Chicago), a piece on bilingual education (Chicano-Latino Law Review), and an analysis of school choice policy under Title VI (Hastings Law Journal). His work has been cited in major scholarly publications such as the Harvard Law Review (1996), the Yale Law Journal (1997), the Columbia Law Review (1996), and the Northwestern Law Review (1992).

Biegel has taught law and education courses to doctoral students at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies since 1987, and to second and third-year law students at the UCLA School of Law since 1989. He has also served as a consultant to the City of Baltimore in their successful school finance lawsuit against the State of Maryland (1995-1996). In the mid-1990's, Biegel expanded his interests to include the area of computers, technology, and the Internet. He currently heads the UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law & Policy, and is the author of Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace (MIT Press – forthcoming).

Additional Members of the Consent Decree Monitoring Team (Jan. 1997 - July 2000)

• Sophia Alvarez - Born and raised in San Francisco, she attended elementary school in SFUSD for several years. Her family still lives two blocks from Martin Luther King Middle School. A graduate of UCLA Law School in May 1998, she is particularly interested in Proposition 209 and related issues of equity.

• Betty Chan - Before attending law school at UCLA, she worked in SFUSD as a Co-Teacher of Chinese Bilingual Classes and served as program coordinator for Revitalizing Education & Learning (San Francisco Community Educational Services). Active in a variety of public interest functions and events, she is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and has also taught in Japan.

• Amanda Datnow - Earned her Ph.D. at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, where she worked with Professors Jeannie Oakes and Amy Stuart Wells. She served as an Associate Research Scientist for Johns Hopkins University, visiting school districts around the country and evaluating programs from an educational policy perspective. In July 2000, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Toronto.

• Enzo der Boghossian - Attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate , majoring in Rhetoric, and also served as Coordinator of Pro Bono Consultation for Low Income Community Members, Alameda County Volunteer Legal Service Center, Oakland, California. He earned his J.D. at the UCLA School of Law in May 2000.

• Nanci Freeman - Earned her B.A. and her J.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles. While attending the UCLA School of Law, she was an active member of the Black Law Students Association, and was chosen as the Student Speaker at the law school graduation, May 2000.

• Mary Thu Huynh - Grew up in the Bay Area, and attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. Before enrolling in law school at UCLA, she was active in a variety of public interest programs in Northern California, serving as a program coordinator at the Chinatown-North Beach Youth Services, a teaching intern at the UC Berkeley Academic Support Program, and an academic coordinator at both Break the Cycle (Oakland, California) and the East Bay Asian Youth Center.

• Daniel Javitch - Earned his B.A. at Columbia University and his J.D. at the UCLA School of Law. For most of the 1990's, practiced law at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler in New York City. Enrolling in the UC Berkeley Teacher Education Program in 1999, he earned a teaching credential and a CLAD certification while student teaching at Mission High School in SFUSD. Dan will be joining the Mission faculty full-time in August 2000.

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• Christopher M. Kwok - Attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and subsequently earned his B.A. at Cornell University, where he was very active in Asian American student affairs...working with the Asian American Coalition & the Asian American Resource Center. A graduate of the UCLA School of Law in May 2000, he recently served on the editorial board of the Asian Pacific American Law Journal.

• Phillip A. Lee - Earned his B.A. at UC Berkeley, and his J.D. at the UCLA Law School, where he was active in a variety of education-related and community-oriented projects. In addition to serving as a judicial extern in the L.A. County Children's Court, he has served as a resident advisor for the Johns Hopkins Center for Academically Talented Youth.

• David G. Lim - Former classroom teacher who supervised UCLA student teachers in urban schools and taught basic principles of Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD). A recent graduate of UC Hastings, and currently a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County, he was the winner of the prestigious Tony Patino Fellowship (public interest) in 1996.

• Leonard Marquez - Born and raised in the East Bay. As an undergraduate, he attended Princeton University, where he focused on issues relating to computer technology and the online world. A recent graduate of the UCLA Law School, he is particularly interested in computer-related issues of law and policy.

• Stephen H. McCray - Former bilingual classroom teacher and supervisor of teacher education at CSU Dominguez Hills. Currently a principal in the Lawndale school district, he has spent his entire career in schools and classrooms, and continues to play a very active role within the African-American community in L.A.

• John McKinney - Former classroom teacher in East Orange, New Jersey, and a graduate of UCLA Law School in May 1997. Has been active in a variety of public interest programs and associations, including the Environmental Law Clinic and the Black Law Students Association.

• Thuy Thi Nguyen - As a student in the Oakland Unified School District, she became a student director of the Oakland School Board. She earned her B.A. at Yale University, and her J.D. at the UCLA School of Law. Her range of honors include "Thuy Thi Nguyen Day" -- June 23, 1993 -- Declared by then Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris, and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (1999).

• Jarvis Van Netta Calvin Pahl - After a distinguished career as a classroom teacher in Brazil, Ethiopia, Botswana, and Southern California, she became a high school administrator, serving as both an assistant principal and a principal. She is currently a faculty member at the UCLA School Management Program (SMP), and is completing the Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership at UCLA.

• Octavio Pescador - Earned his master's at Stanford University, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Social Science and Comparative Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Has worked with Professor Concepcion Valadez in bilingual education, and with Professor Carlos Torres at the Center for Latin American Studies.

• Kelly Rozmus - Former classroom teacher who taught Chapter 1 Competency and Composition Classes in Milwaukee and English classes in Japan. A graduate of UCLA Law School in May 1997, she was the recipient in 1996 of the prestigious Joseph Hairston Duff Public Interest Award.

• Gerald Sequeira - Very active in a variety of public interest programs as an undergraduate at UCLA, including outreach efforts within the local community, and the Academic Advancement Program. Currently a student at the UCLA School of Law, he is a member of the La Raza Law Students Association.

• Jason T. Snyder - Earned his B.A. at Stanford University, where he served as Student Body President in 1993-1994. Attended the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, where he earned a California Teacher Credential and an M.Ed. Went on to teach high school in Torrance USD and then taught for a year at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing. Currently a J.D. Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).

• Diane Steinberg - Ph.D. student in educational policy at UC Berkeley. Has worked for the California Department of Education as a project evaluator in the Research, Evaluation & Technology Division, and has been a Graduate Student Researcher for PACE (Policy Analysis in Ed).