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Lawrence O. Picus

Expert in the public financing of schools
  • Richard T. Cooper and Mary Catherine Cooper Chair in Public School Administration
  • Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs
  • Professor of Education
  • USC Rossier School of Education
Office: (818) 980-1881
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Expertise

  • public school finance
  • equity and adequacy in school funding
  • school business administration
  • education policy
  • linking school resources to student performance
  • resource allocation in schools

Additional Information

  • Co-author, School Finance: A Policy Perspective, (4th edition, 2008) and A Systems Analysis Approach to Selecting, Designing and Implementing Automated Systems (1991)
  • Co-editor, Where Does the Money Go? (1996) and Outcome Equity in Education (1994)
  • President, American Education Finance Association (1996-97)
  • Co-author, School Finance: A Policy Perspective (6th edition, 2019) and A Systems Analysis Approach to Selecting, Designing and Implementing Automated Systems (1991)