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Steering CommitteeBusiness Meeting at the 2011 Forum

The Steering Committee is the primary policy-setting body of ECS.  Specifically, the Steering Committee has the right to: adopt and approve statements and communications to implement, effectuate and advocate policy positions of the Commission; consider policy recommendations from any person, committee or other body; engage in discussion and debate of education issues in order to provide major program direction for the Commission; recommend bylaws changes to the Commission; and approve the ECS strategic plan, annual budget and Annual Report. 

Between meetings of the Steering Committee, its policymaking authority is delegated to the Executive Committee. The Steering Committee voting members consist of one representative from each member state, as well as the Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer and Immediate Past Chair during their terms of office.  The Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission shall serve as the Chair and Vice Chair of this committee as well.

Steering Committee Members

Alabama
Stephanie Bell, Member, Alabama State Board of Education

Alaska
Mike Hanley, Commissioner of Education

American Samoa
Evelyn Godinet, Principal, Manumalo Baptist School

Arizona
Linda Gray, Vice Chair, Senate Education Accountability and Reform Committee

California
Wilmer Amina Carter, Assembly Member

Colorado
John Hickenlooper, Governor

Connecticut
Andrew Fleischmann, House Chair, Education Committee

Delaware
David Sokola, Chair, Senate Education Committee

District of Columbia
Allen Sessoms, President, University of the District of Columbia

Florida
Stephen Wise, Chair, Senate Education Pre-K-12 Committee

Georgia
Freddie Powell Sims, State Senator

Hawaii
Roy Takumi, Chair, House Education Committee

Idaho
John Andreason, State Senator

Illinois
Christopher Koch, State Superintendent of Education

Indiana
Dennis Kruse, Chair, Senate Education and Career Development Committee

Iowa
Daryl Beall, State Senator

Kansas
Diane DeBacker, Commissioner of Education

Kentucky
Joseph U. Meyer, Secretary, Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet

Maryland
Adrienne Jones, House Speaker Pro Tem

Massachusetts
Mitchell Chester, Commissioner of Education

Michigan
Michael Flanagan, Superintendent of Public Instruction

Minnesota
Gen Olson, Chair, Senate Education Committee

Mississippi
Tom Burnham, State Superintendent

Missouri
David Pearce, Chair, Senate Education Committee

Montana
Sue Malek, State Representative

Nebraska
John Bonaiuto, Executive Director, Nebraska Association of School Boards

Nevada
Barbara Cegavske, State Senator

New Hampshire
Thomas Horgan, President & CEO, New Hampshire College and University Council

New Jersey
Shirley Turner, State Senator

New Mexico
Rick Miera, Chair, House Education Committee

New York
Barbara Clark, Assemblywoman

North Carolina
Howard Lee, President, Howard N. Lee Institute for Equity and Opportunity in Education

North Dakota
Rae Ann Kelsch, Chair, House Education Committee

Ohio
Deborah Delisle

Oklahoma
Phyllis Hudecki, Secretary of Education

Oregon
George Pernsteiner, Chancellor, Oregon University System

Pennsylvania
James Roebuck, Minority Chair, House Education Committee

Puerto Rico
Lucy Arce Ferrer, State Senator

South Carolina
Garrison Walters, Executive Director, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education

South Dakota
Melody Schopp, Secretary of Education

Tennessee
Richard Rhoda, Executive Director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission

Texas
Florence Shapiro, Chair, Senate Education Committee

Utah
Christine Kearl, Education Deputy, Office of the Governor

Virgin Islands
LaVerne Terry, Commissioner of Education

Virginia
Patricia Wright, Superintendent of Public Instruction

West Virginia
Mary Poling, Chair, House Education Committee

Wisconsin
Luther Olsen, Chair, Senate Education Committee

Wyoming
Rollin Abernethy, Associate Provost and Professor, University of Wyoming


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