Special Education Staff
Gretchen Cagle, State Director
Shirley Fleming, Projects Officer
Chelsea Chicosky, Attorney
Bureau of Fiscal Services
Michael Gibbons, Bureau Director
Melvinann Carter, Projects Officer II, Special
Office of District Fiscal Services
Audrey Shaifer, Office Director
Mary Bobbitt, Division Director
Roscoe Jones, Education Program Coordinator
Division of MDE Accounting Services
Christopher Brooks, Division Director
Division of External Placements and Indicator Analysis
Janika Cheers, Division Director II
Rhonda Brooks, Division Director II
Division of Support Services
Yvonne Ellis, Division Director
Jeffrey Moore, Education Program Coordinator
Marilyn Reed, Education Program Coordinator
Melissa Shields, Education Specialist, Senior
Bureau of Instructional Support, Compliance and Monitoring
Tanya Bradley, Bureau Director
Raymond Reeves, Projects Officer
Office of Instructional Support
Sharon Coon, Office Director
Alice Hunter, Educator in Residence (Conservator District Support)
Candice Kelly, Transition Instructional Support Specialist
Teresa Laney, Speech Language Instructional Support Specialist
Julie Lowery, Emotional Disabilities Instructional Support Specialist
Amy Shelly, Professional Development Coordinator
M. Pleshette Smith, Differentiated Instruction Support Specialist
Edryce Thompson, State Systemic Improvement Plan Support Specialist
Stacey Todd, Professional Development Coordinator
Lisa White, Educator in Residence (State Systemic Improvement Plan Coordinator)
Devin Boone, Professional Development Coordinator
Margaret Elmer, Professional Development Coordinator
Office of Compliance and Monitoring
Velva Haynes, Office Director
Keisha Dixon, Compliance Monitoring Coordinator
Katherine Green, Compliance Monitoring Coordinator
Gloria Lacey, Compliance Monitoring Coordinator
Minnia Winters, Compliance Monitoring Coordinator
Allison Paige Pigott, Compliance Monitoring Coordinator
Shuwana Hurt, Compliance Monitoring Coordinator
Bureau of Parent Engagement and Support
Armerita Tell, Bureau Director
Office of Dispute Resolution
Mona Spells Adou, Trainer/Investigator
Ginger Koestler, Dispute Resolution Investigator
Jordan Helton, Education Planning & Evaluation Coordinator
Office of Parent Outreach
Candice Taylor, Parent Outreach Specialist