For the sixth time, Kathleen STRAUS has been elected to a two-year term as President of the State Board of Education. She was re-elected to her third eight-year term on the Board in the November election.

Straus served as Board President in 1997-98. She was elected President again in 2001 and has been re-elected to the top post every two years since then.

The other Board officers were also re-elected. They are: John AUSTIN, vice president; Carolyn CURTIN, secretary; Marianne McGUIRE, treasurer; and Nancy DANHOF, board representative to NASBE.