10, after this magazine edition went to press. McLerran began driving a school bus
as a senior in high school. He went on to graduate from Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences. Later, as a high school history and government teacher, he was also the district’s only certified school bus driver and drove a route and all activity trips for two years. He received his mas- ter’s degree in special education in 1975, taught special education for two years and was an elementary principal for an additional two years. At that time he con- tinued to complete further graduate work in special education, school administra- tion, elementary and reading specialists education, and career and technology educational administration. In 1979 he joined the Oklahoma State
Department of Education as a reading specialists and a year later moved into school transportation. He served as an
area coordinator until 2001, when he was moved into the state director’s position. While serving as an area coordinator he trained school bus drivers and monitored school transportation programs. His duties have expanded to include stu-
dent transfers, capital improvement, school district annexation and consolidation, and work on residency and McKinney-Vento issues. He represented the state superin- tendent on two state boards and advises the state superintendent on issues related to the school land commission as well as numerous special projects. McLerran holds the distinction of hold-
ing certifications as a superintendent of schools, an elementary school principal, a K-12 special education teacher and a secondary social sciences teacher. Te in- augural recipient of the Peter J. Grandolfo Memorial Award of Excellence at the 2007 STN EXPO, he also presented the first-ever seminar on school bullying in November
2005 at the NAPT conference and chaired the Oklahoma School Bus Specifications Committee for the past two decades. He approved the first online school bus driver training program in the nation for state school bus driver certification and conducted training sessions at national conferences on the program’s effective- ness. He also wrote the current curriculum for the Oklahoma state school bus driver certification course and pioneered new Oklahoma State Board of Education rules that moved school bus driver certi- fications from every five years to annual reviews and conducted the annual State Superintendents Conference on Trans- porting Students with Special Needs. “Randy was certainly an extremely in-
novative, thinking outside the lines, state director who contributed greatly to the school bus transportation industry na- tionally as well as in Oklahoma,” said Bob Riley, NASDPTS executive director. ■
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