Jesse Levin Ph.D., is a principal research economist at AIR where over the past 15 years he has been involved in a number of projects investigating educational production, school finance and adequacy, and resource allocation. He currently directs national studies of weighted student funding systems and Title I resource allocation, both for the U.S. Department of Education, as well as a study of educational adequacy in California public schools. In addition, Levin recently directed a study of public school funding for the Maryland State Department of Education and Maryland Department of Legislative Services. He has directed high-profile educational adequacy studies in California, New Mexico and New York, investigations of educator supply and demand in Oklahoma and Massachusetts, evaluations of state school finance systems in Hawaii, Nevada and Pennsylvania, and researched educational resource allocation and effectiveness both within and across school districts.
