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Education Coalition1989 – presentFor the Education Coalition, an informal group of 14 Kentucky organizations with statewide constituencies concerned with public education, Steve serves as the group's facilitator. This involves setting meeting agendas in collaboration with coalition members, facilitating the meetings, and taking the lead role in producing the Coalition's written products. Then-Commissioner of Education John Brock initially convened the Education Coalition in 1989, with the intention of providing a forum for discussing issues of common concern. Steve and Rona co-facilitated the initial formation of the Coalition, meeting with individuals who served either as presidents or executive directors of statewide organizations with an interest in elementary and secondary education. The Coalition now includes representatives from these groups:
The Education Coalition spent its first six months defining what it would be, considering whether it made sense to continue meeting as an organization, deciding on a structure, and formulating some ground rules for functioning. Once those understandings were put into place, Steve continued as facilitator for the Coalition. Since then, the group has focused almost exclusively on substantive issues having to do with state educational policy. In addition to providing technical assistance for the group, Steve takes the lead in drafting the position papers that the Coalition issues from time to time. The Coalition has shared these position papers with the governor, the legislature, and the Department of Education, and occasionally has distributed them more widely. Prior to 1990, when the Kentucky General Assembly passed the comprehensive Kentucky Education Reform Act, the Education Coalition drafted a wide-ranging position paper indicating the areas that the constituent groups agreed should change. Since passage of the reform, the Coalition has, prior to each session of the Kentucky legislature, issued one or more position papers with statements regarding members' overall assessment of the reform effort or suggestions for either support or modification of existing elements of the reform, which is now Kentucky's state school law. 
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