“Promoting Innovation and Reinventing the Federal Role” was the title of the October 21, 2009, public meeting on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Held at ED headquarters in Washington, D.C., the forum featured panelists Warren Simmons of The Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Stacey Childress of the Harvard Business School, and Susan Patrick of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning.