| Title | Former Assistant Secretary |
| Notes | IEL's board of directors appointed Dr. Johan E. Uvin as IEL's sixth president. Uvin was the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) at the U.S. Department of Education. He succeeds Martin J. Blank, who served as IEL president since 2009 and remains the director of IEL's Coalition for Community Schools. |