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STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

FORMER SUPERINTENDENTS

[photo, David W. Hornbeck, Maryland State Superintendent of Schools] DAVID W. HORNBECK, Ph.D.
State Superintendent of Schools, 1976-88

Executive Director, Philadelphia Tutorial Project, Temple University, 1966-67. Deputy Counsel to Governor of Pennsylvania, 1971. Executive Deputy Secretary of Education, Pennsylvania, 1972-76.

State Superintendent of Schools, 1976 to 1988. Secretary-Treasurer, State Board of Education, 1976-88. Member, Governor's Executive Council, 1976-88. Chair, Interagency Committee on School Construction, 1976-88; Education Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions, 1976-88; Education Coordinating Council for State Hospital Centers and Juvenile Institutions, 1976-88. Chair, Board of Trustees, Teachers' Retirement System, 1976-79. Chair, Board of Trustees, Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems, 1980-88. Member, Advisory Council to the Board of Public Works on Higher Education Facilities Acts, 1976-88; Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, 1976-88; Education Coordinating Committee, 1976-88; Maryland Education Council, 1976-88; State Employment and Training Council, 1976-88; Maryland Highway Safety Coordinating Committee, 1976-88; Governor's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, 1979-82; Governor's Commission on Hispanic Affairs, 1978-88; Task Force to Study Educational and Related Service Needs of Children in Juvenile Residential Institutions, 1980; Task Force on Violence and Extremism, 1981-87; Maryland Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, 1982-88; Task Force on School Construction Finance, 1987.

Chair, National Title I Commission, 1994. Superintendent of Public Schools, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994-2000.

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, December 11, 1941. Attended public schools, Longview, Texas. Austin College, B.A. (history), 1963, and honorary doctorate; Oxford University, P.G.Dip. (theology), 1965; Union Theological Seminary, B.Div., 1966. Member, campus ministry at Temple University, 1966. University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1971. Former partner, law firm of Hogan and Hartson, Washington, DC; Visiting professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1988-94.President and Chief Executive Officer, International Youth Foundation, 2003-. Member, Operation Crossroads Africa. Founder and Chair, Good Schools Pennsylvania. Chair, Children's Defense Fund. Board of Directors, Education Week; National Center on Education and the Economy. Chair, Board of Directors, Public Education Network. Member, Council on Adolescent Development, Carnegie Corporation; Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Early Adolescents. Past president, Council of Chief State School Officers. Former chair, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Co-editor, Human Capital and America's Future: An Economic Strategy for the Nineties (1991). Co-author, Choosing Excellence in Public Schools: Where There's a Will, There's a Way (New Frontiers in Education, 2009). Married; two children, four grandchildren.

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