Strategic School Funding for Results
Advisory Group
Susanna Cooper, Principal Consultant for
CA Senate Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg
Stephen Frank, Director of Rethinking
School and School System Resources, Education Resource Strategies
Kenneth Hall, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, School Services of California, Inc. & Founding Director, USC School Business Management Program
Henry M. Levin, William H Kilpatrick
Professor of Economics & Education, Teachers College, Columbia
University
Rick Miller, Senior Partner, California
Education Partners & Partner, Capitol Impact LLC
Warren Simmons, Executive Director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Project Leadership
Dr.
Jay G. Chambers
SSFR Co-Principal Investigator
Senior Research Fellow and a
Managing Director
American Institutes for
Research
Dr.
Jesse D. Levin
SSFR Director of Research
Senior Research
Economist
American Institutes for
Research
Dr.
Merrill Vargo
SSFR Co-Principal Investigator
Executive Director
Pivot Learning
Partners
Mr.
Steve Jubb
Project Director, Pivot Team
Director of Innovation &
District Redesign
Pivot Learning
Partners
Mr.
James R. Brown
Senior Advisor to the Project
Pivot Learning
Partners
Project Team (Key Members)
School Districts
Los Angeles Unified School
District:
William
Bass
Transparent Budgeting, Program and Policy Development
Advisor
John
Deasy
Superintendent
Matt
Hill
Administrative Officer, Superintendent’s Office
Twin Rivers Unified School
District:
Mahala
Archer
SSFR project manager
Frank
Porter
District Superintendent
Pasadena Unified School
District:*
Edwin
Diaz
District Superintendent
Dierk
Esseln
Budget Director
John
Pappalardo
Chief Financial Officer
*SSFR
activities in PUSD are currently on hold (For more information,
please read this press release).
American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Dr.
Jesse D. Levin
Director of the
SSFR Evaluation and Task Leader
Diana
Epstein
AIR Task Leader -
Surveys & Interviews of District Staff
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Kevin Lane
Project Research
Assistant
Consultants
Jason
Willis
TRM budget
process
Aaron
Sokol
Budget process
redesign
Pivot Learning
Partners
Pivot Leadership Team:
Merrill
Vargo
Project
Co-Principal Investigator, State Policy
Steve
Jubb
Implementation Project Director/LAUSD Site Lead
Jim
Brown
Senior Advisor
Pivot-Based, Cross-District Support Team:
Cristin
Quealy
PLP Project
Manager, TRUSD Support
Jim
Hollis
Data Tools
Designer and Developer, TRUSD PBAR UCD
Amy
Dabrowski
Knowledge
Management and Research
Brentt
Brown
Documentation
Jee
Song
SSFR Project
Assistant
LAUSD Embedded Project Team:
Denise
Petrulis
User-Centered
Design
Beth
Marco
Principal
Training and Development
TRUSD:
Ray
Tolleson
Executive Coach
for Twin Rivers Unified School District (TRUSD)
The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305A100630 to the American Institutes of Research, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and The Ford Foundation. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the U.S. Department of Education, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, or The Ford Foundation.