Ability to work in a matrix environment Ability to work across party lines PAST APPOINTEES Michael Yudin (2015 to 2016) Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative – Services; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Senate Staffer Alexa E. Posny (2009 to 2012) Commissioner of the Kansas State Department of Education; Director – of the Office of Special Education Programs; State Director of Special Education with the Kansas State Department of Education Tracy Ralph Justesen (2007 to 2009) Career Program Specialist for the Department of Education; – served in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; Associate Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council
Ability to work in a matrix environment Ability to work across party lines PAST APPOINTEES Michael Yudin (2015 to 2016) – Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Senate Staffer Alexa E. Posny (2009 to 2012) – Commissioner of the Kansas State Department of Education; Director of the Office of Special Education Programs; State Director of Special Education with the Kansas State Department of Education Tracy Ralph Justesen (2007 to 2009) – Career Program Specialist for the Department of Education; served in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; Associate Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council