Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

We bring a wide perspective to each client engagement due to our experience working on education finance at just about every level. We understand how all of the pieces of the intricate and complex education financing puzzle fit together, and how this knowledge can be leveraged to the benefit of each client.

Here are examples of the questions we help clients answer:

• Given that all funding systems contain incentives, how do you structure a system to help a country, state, or district achieve its overall goals for educating children?
• How much does it cost to provide all students with the opportunity to meet state education achievement standards?
• How much money is being spent on special education in the United States, and how do these expenditures play out at the district, school, and student levels?
• How can the federal government and states best determine how resources are being used in schools and school districts?
• How can standard procedures be developed to assist school districts with accounting practices?
• As the accounting standards for postsecondary education move from a cash-accrual basis to an entity-wide approach that recognizes the economic life of expenditures, how can the new system measure trends over time?
• What can the United States learn from other countries to improve the equity and efficiency of its education finance system?
• To what extent do the differing rates in identifying students with disabilities result from real differences in pupil needs, as opposed to fiscal incentives or other policy differences across states?

Our research agenda continues to evolve in response to key financial and policy issues arising from educating the nation’s increasingly diverse population. Our work provides relevant information and state-of-the-art analysis of fiscal policy to improve the use of scarce resources in delivering public services. Overlapping staffing between AIR’s Education Finance Team and the District Consulting Group helps bring research and practice together for the benefit of our clients.