Sarah Archibald is a School Finance Researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a recent graduate of the doctoral program in Educational Leadership in Policy Analysis at UW-Madison and currently holds an instructor appointment in that department. Her career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began as an undergraduate in Political Science; she received her B.A. in 1993. Next, she received a Master's degree in Policy Analysis from the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, and shortly thereafter began working at CPRE. Because of her background in policy analysis, Sarah's passion is participating in research that informs policy. Her areas of expertise include comprehensive school reform, district- and school-level resource reallocation, educational adequacy, and estimating the costs of professional development programs. She helped develop two frameworks for collecting micro-level data, both published in the Journal of Education Finance: a school-level expenditure structure, and a framework for capturing professional costs at the district and school-level. She is also the coauthor, with Allan Odden, of a book published in 2001, Reallocating Resources: How to Boost Student Achievement without Asking for More.

Michael Goetz is a researcher with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Prior to joining CPRE, Michael managed K-8 educational centers for Score Learning, Inc. in New York and taught middle school math and science in Kansas City. He received a B.A. in Educational Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and is currently pursuing a Ph.D.

in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at University of Wisconsin—Madison. Michael received a Wisconsin-Spencer Doctoral Research Program Fellowship and a dissertation grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

He has worked on school finance adequacy studies in Arizona (2003-04), Arkansas (2005-06), North Dakota (2007-08) Washington (2005-06), Wisconsin (2005-06), and Wyoming (2005-06). Michael has also performed analyses of school-based resource allocation and restructuring in Hawaii, Missouri, New Jersey, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Additionally, Michael has worked with organizations to evaluate the cost of early childhood education.