Kenneth
R. Warlick, Ph.D.
Director of the Office of Special Education Programs
U.S. Department of Education
Dr. Kenneth Warlick currently serves as Director of the Office of
Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education.
Previously, Dr. Warlick served as Associate Commissioner of the
Kentucky Department of Education (1991 to 1998), first heading
the Office of Special Instructional Service and subsequently
the Office of Learning Programs Development. During his tenure,
Dr. Warlick designed a plan to improve relations between the
State education department and various child-parent advocacy
groups, helped lead an effort to completely revise the special
education code to clearly distinguish between best practices
and legal mandates, and helped implement the Kentucky Education
Reform Act, a major legislative package intended to improve the
quality of Kentucky schools. From 1998 to his January 2000 appointment
to the U.S. Department of Education, Dr. Warlick directed the
Inclusive Large Scale Standards and Assessment Group within the
University of Kentucky's Interdisciplinary Human Development
Institute. In that position, he led work on alternate assessments
for special needs populations and helped develop alternate assessment
principles in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and
Tennessee. Dr. Warlick's earlier work experience includes supervising
a dropout prevention program in New Bern, NC, serving as an assistant
principal and later local director of special education in Durham,
NC, and serving as associate superintendent in Warren County,
NC. Dr. Warlick holds doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degrees
in education.
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