For Immediate Release
October 31, 2006
John Herner named Interim Director of Special Education
for ISBE
Chris Koch to begin serving as Interim State Superintendent
of Education
SPRINGFIELD – John Herner has been named Interim
Director of Special Education for the Illinois State
Board of Education beginning Nov. 20, 2006.
He will fill the position of Dr. Chris Koch who will
begin serving as Interim State Superintendent of Education.
It was announced in August 2006, that Koch would begin
serving as Interim State Superintendent of Education
when Superintendent Randy Dunn leaves ISBE to serve as
president of Murray State University in Kentucky.
Herner served as Director of Special Education for the
Ohio Department of Education for nine years. He has more
recently worked as an independent consultant and project
director of the University of Dayton. He has experience
as an evaluation specialist, teacher and administrator.
“We are pleased to welcome a professional of the
caliber of John Herner to the Illinois State Board of
Education and look forward to the leadership he will
provide in the area of Special Education,” Koch
said.
Herner earned his education degree at Bowling Green
State University and his master’s degree at Ohio
State University.
Herner has served as president of the National Association
of State Directors of Special Education; as a member
of the Presidential Commission on Conditions for Special
Education Teaching, Council for Exceptional Children;
president of the Ohio Council for Administrators of Special
Education; and as a member of the Professional Standards
and Practices Standing Committee, Council for Exceptional
Children.
Herner was honored in 2004 as National Association of
State Directors of Special Education Heritage Award,
2004; in 1990 as the Thomas A. Bankston Lifetime Achievement
Award; in 1987 as Harold F. Hilty Humanitarian Award;
and in 1975 as Ohio Special Education Administrator of
the Year.
His community service has included serving as president
of the Board of Trustees of United Cerebral Palsy of
Metropolitan Dayton.
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