John McLaughlin has been the federal coordinator of the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program and federal program manager of the Title I, Part D Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk Program since March 2008. Prior to that, he was the state coordinator for homeless, neglected and delinquent education programs with the Minnesota Department of Education. He has been an educator in the fields of English as a Second Language, migrant education, teacher education and service learning. He received his doctorate in education from Temple University with a focus on second language education. He has worked as a high school ESL and social studies teacher, and later as a teacher educator at the University of Michigan’s English Language Institute. Mr. McLaughlin began his career as a counselor at a group home for runaway and at-risk youth in New Haven, Connecticut in 1988. He received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Yale University, and master’s degrees in public administration from International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and advanced Japanese studies from the Sheffield University (UK).