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Public Education Advocate Jamie Vollmer to Speak in Westerville on August 8
7/31/2012
Jamie Vollmer, an award-winning champion of public education, will speak at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 8. His visit is being underwritten by the Westerville Education Challenge, an organization which supports innovative educational programming throughout the Westerville City School District. The event is free and open to the public. It will be held at Cowan Hall on the campus of Otterbein University. (
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Vollmer wrote the highly acclaimed book,
Schools Cannot Do It Alone
. He has spent the last 20 years working with school districts, education associations, foundations, and chambers of commerce across the nation to halt the erosion of public trust and build support for America’s public schools. His primary goal is to help educators and their allies remove the obstacles to progress and create schools that unfold the full potential of every child. He is the proud recipient of the
2012 Friend of Public Education award
, presented by the Ohio Federation of Teachers. In 2010, he received the
Learning and Liberty
award, presented by the National School Public Relations Association in recognition of his “outstanding efforts to strengthen school/community partnerships.”
Vollmer is not a professional educator. He became involved with school reform after careers in law and manufacturing. He worked in the firm of former United States Congressman William Cramer until 1985 when he relocated to Iowa to become director of franchise operations for the Great Midwestern Ice Cream Company. The company was proclaimed by
People
magazine to make the “Best Ice Cream in America!” He ultimately became the company’s president.
In 1988, he was invited to serve on the nationally recognized Iowa Business and Education Roundtable. After two years as a volunteer, he changed careers and became the Roundtable’s Executive Director. He remained in that post for three years after which he formed the education advocacy firm, Jamie Vollmer, Inc.
Once a harsh critic, Vollmer has become an articulate friend of America’s public schools. His presentations combine statistics, logic, and humor to energize and encourage educators, business leaders, and community groups to work together to build successful schools.
In addition to his book
Schools Cannot Do It Alone
and numerous articles, Vollmer has written and produced the videos,
Why Our Schools Need to Change
,
Teachers are Heroes
, and
Building Support for America’s Schools
. He has served on the boards of the National PTA and the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
Vollmer holds a Juris Doctor from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. in Political Science from Penn State University.