Award for Excellence in Public Service

The highest award CoSN offers for an elected or appointed national, state or local official for his/her achievements in promoting the use of Information Technologies and the Internet to improve K-12 learning.

2013 Award for Excellence
in Public Service recipient:

Karen Cator
former Director of the Office of Educational Technology
at the U.S. Department of Education

Past Honorees

2012
Michael J. Copps, former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner

2011
Congressman George Miller (D-CA)

2010
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)

2009
Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA)

2008
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)

2007
Governor Edward G. Rendell (D-PA)

2006
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

2005
John Bailey (former Director, Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education)

2004
House Speaker Rick Johnson (R-MI)

2003
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT)

2002
Senator John (Jay) D Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

2001
Governor Angus I. King (I-ME)

2000
Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)