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.

2012 Award for Excellence
in Public Service recipient:

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

Past Honorees

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)