Stretching the School Dollar: How Schools and Districts Can Save Money While Serving Students Best

Frederick M. Hess is a resident scholar and the director of education policy studies at AEI, executive editor of Education Next, and author of the Education Week blog "Rick Hess Straight Up." His many books include Education Unbound (ASCD, 2010), Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Revolution at the Margins (Brookings Institution Press, 2002), and Spinning Wheels (Brookings Institution Press, 1998). His work appears in scholarly and more popular outlets, such as Teachers College Record, Harvard Education Review, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News and World Report, Washington Post, and National Review. He serves on the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education and on the boards of directors for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and the American Board for the Certification of Teaching Excellence. A former high school social studies teacher, Hess teaches or has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rice University, and Harvard University. Eric Osberg is the vice president and treasurer of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is primarily responsible for financial and managerial issues at Fordham, and also works on policy projects related to school finance. From 1997 to 2000, Osberg worked for Capital One Financial in Vienna, Virginia, where he helped develop the company's telecommunications line of business, America One.