The Strategic Funding and Finance Center at AIR partners with state education agencies, school districts, and local leaders across the United States to help them understand, coordinate, and optimize federal, state, and local funding streams to support student success.Our work strengthens the capacity of states and districts to flexibly design ...
The Midwest Comprehensive Center addresses key topics identified by state education leaders in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
AIR supports state education agencies in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah in their central goal of ensuring education systems meet the complex and ever-changing needs of students.
AIR supports state education agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont in their central goal: ensuring education systems meet the complex and ever-changing needs of students.
This study integrates standardized test data from the North Carolina Department of Education with more than 200 environmental variables from various sources to examine how environmental exposures at school locations influence academic performance across the state.
AIR is working with Marquette University and Milwaukee Public Schools to strengthen teachers’ computer science content knowledge and instructional confidence, enabling better access to high-quality CS courses throughout the district.
Amanda Mickus has nearly a decade of experience in large-scale national and international assessment item development, STEM education, and external program evaluation, working with state and federal clients to generate high validity education statistics and evidence of effective practices for improving student outcomes. Mickus leads content development support for the National ...
Our project involves creating a user-friendly AI tool that helps teachers design, monitor, and adjust peer-mediated learning routines in elementary math classrooms.
AIR implemented survey design, data processing, and reporting tasks from 2009 to 2025 to ensure the collection and production of high-quality, timely data on the characteristics and experiences of the skilled technical workforce through the National Training, Education, and Workforce Survey.
Under the NAEP Research and Development Program, AIR provided the National Center for Education Statistics with technical assistance, research and evaluation, and communications support to foster innovation and increased capacity for the NAEP program.
