Professor R. Craig Wood’s professional career has spanned classroom teacher, grant administrator, business manager, and assistant superintendent of schools for school districts in Wisconsin and Connecticut. He currently is Professor at the University of Florida. Dr. Wood’s publication record exceeds more than 125 book chapters, monographs, and refereed journal articles. He has published in several American Education Finance Association Yearbooks, the Journal of Education Finance, ELA Handbook of School Law, West’s Education Law Reporter, books by ASBO, and others. His texts include Fiscal Leadership for Schools: Concepts and Practices (Longman), Principles of School Business Management, Third Edition (ASBO), and Education Finance Law: Constitutional Challenges to State Aid Plans, Third Edition (ELA). His consulting work has included advisement or expert analysis for state departments, legislatures, attorneys general, and attorneys and litigants in school finance. Dr. Wood is codirector of the UCEA Center for Education Finance. He is a past president of the American Education Finance Association.

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University of Florida