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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: IUP Crimson Hawks football players, Gerald Zahorchak, Dana D. Nelson, John Brallier, List of Indiana University of Pennsylvania people, Jim Haslett, Frank Cignetti, Sr., Jim Renacci, Vicki Iseman, Mark Critz, Jack Wagner, Tim Burns, Atrios, Lawson Fiscus, Jeff Burk, Frank Cignetti, Jr., Patricia Robertson, Akwasi Owusu-Ansah, Colleen Kopp, Jeff Pyle, Howard Fargo, Kris Griffin, Paul Failla, Jason Capizzi, Kevin McMullan, Agnes Sligh Turnbull, Ross Fiscus, John Stuchell Fisher, LeRon McCoy, Mike Jemison, Rich Ingold, Bob Ligashesky, Jean Daugherty, Ben Jones, Howard William Stull, Linda Chiaraluna, Thomas Tangretti, Charles Kupchella, Summers Melville Jack, Leander Jordan, Chris Villarrial, Harry Malcolm, Dave Smith, Ben Lawrence, Jim Wooding. Excerpt: Gerald L. Zahorchak is an American educator and the former Secretary of Education for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, a position he held from 2006 to 2010. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Zahorchak worked at various Pennsylvania public school districts in a number of positions, including teacher, football coach, principal, federal programs director, strategic planning coordinator and personnel director. Zahorchak worked as superintendent of the Greater Johnstown School District in Cambria County from 1997 to 2003, when he was chosen to be Deputy Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education for the state. Governor Ed Rendell appointed him Secretary of Education in 2005. During his tenure as secretary, Zahorchak implemented state funding for pre-kindergarten and full-day kindergarten, developed a new school funding formula, helped increase education funding for school districts, and established the Keystone Exams and the state's Standards Aligned System. In 2010, Zahorchak announced he would leave the Secertary of Education position, coinciding with Rendell...