Judy Hackett Ed.D.

  A Message From the Superintendent Judy Hackett, Ed.D.

Welcome to the NSSEO website.  After 40 years as a special education cooperative, NSSEO continues to look at collaborative, creative ways to embrace the changes reflective of educational reform while continuing to keep the focus on meeting the needs of all students. As one of only a handful of special education cooperatives that existed in IL in 1969, NSSEO has evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of families, districts and the community. The field of special education, embedded in a changing field of education, has and will need to expand in a number of dimensions reflective of those important changes.  Click here to read more.