Equity Center’s School Finance Services
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Equity Center Radio | May 28, 2010 |Today’s Podcast Focuses on the Services the Equity Center Renders to its Member School Districts
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In today’s broadcast, we interview two of the Equity Center’s staff who work with our members in budgeting, financial forecasting and other economic areas that call for special actuarial, computer program design for economic spreadsheets and databases, and statistics expertise. Tim Wolff and Charles Aki fit the bill to a tee and the Equity Center is delighted to have them here to be interviewed by our Deputy Executive Director, Ray Freeman.
Tim Wolff has worked since January 2007 as our programmer/analyst, a position he held for seven years in the Legislative Budget Board‘s public education team prior to joining the Equity Center. Previously, he had worked as an actuary in the Life Insurance industry and as a statistical programmer in the pharmaceutical sector. He began his working career by serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. You can email Tim at Tim Wolff
Dr. Charles Aki is the Director of Research here at the Equity Center. He is in charge of all the tasks related to running the school finance model and analyzing the impact of legislation on the funding of school districts. Charles has been with us since February 2004. Prior to that, he was with the Texas Education Agency, where he served as a program administrator and principal financial and systems analyst in the State Funding Division. Charles has over 25 years’ experience in school finance, research, and economics. He holds a Ph.D. in resource economics from Ohio State University, and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Austin Community College. Charles can be reached by emailing him at Charles Aki
Charles Aki
Tim Wolff
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