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MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON EXCELLENCE IN SPECIAL EDUCATION

CHAIRMAN: Terry Branstad -- former Governor of Iowa; currently a lobbyist with KNP & Miller, Washington, D.C.

Adela Acosta -- Principal, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, Hyattsville, Maryland

Steve Bartlett -- Former Dallas Mayor

Paula C. Butterfield -- Pittsburgh Public Schools deputy superintendent

Jay G. Chambers -- Director of the American Institutes for Research's Special Education Expenditure Study

W. Alan Coulter -- Program Director for the Lousiana State University School of Allied Health Professions' Human Development Center

Jack M. Fletcher -- pediatrics professor at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center

Douglas H. Gill, Director of Special Education, Washington Department of Public Instruction

David W. Gordon -- Superintendent of the Elk Grove, Calif., Unified School District

Nancy S. Grasmick -- Maryland Superintendent of Schools

Bryan C. Hassel -- Director of education and policy consulting firm Public Impact, Charlotte, N.C.

Douglas C. Huntt -- director of assistive technology center AT Ohio

Cheryl Rei Takemoto -- Executive Director of Virginia's Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center

Thomas Albert Flemming -- Michigan

Michael J. Rivas -- Texas

Katie Wright -- Illinois

 

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES:

Elizabeth Ann Bryan -- Special Counsel to Secretary of Education Rod Paige

Edward Sontag -- Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management

Robert Pasternack -- Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Reid Lyon -- Chief of National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Child Development and Behavior Branch

Wade F. Horn -- Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Children and Families