FAITH E. CRAMPTON

Professor Faith E. Crampton’s professional career has spanned public education, senior administrative positions in state government, senior research and policy positions in national education and legislative organizations, and graduate faculty positions in public and private research universities. Her current position is associate professor of education finance and policy in the Department of Administrative Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is past president of the Fiscal Issues, Policy, and Education Finance Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Education Finance Association. She is also a past member of the Board of Directors for the University Council for Educational Administration’s Center for Education Finance. She has held graduate faculty appointments in education finance at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester. Outside academe, she has served as a senior researcher with the National Education Association, a senior policy analyst and consultant for the National Conference of State Legislatures, and Deputy Director of the Ohio Student Loan Commission. She is a highly respected expert witness in school finance litigation and consultant to legislatures on school finance reform. She has published widely in leading journals such as the Journal of Education Finance, Educational Considerations, National Association of Secondary School Principals Journal, Journal of School Business Management, Journal of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International, and School Business Affairs, in addition to authoring numerous monographs, reports, book chapters, and policy briefs. She is executive editor of the scholarly journal Educational Considerations, and a member of the editorial staff of the Journal of Education Finance. In 2003, she published the groundbreaking book, Saving America’s School Infrastructure, with a foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Dr. Crampton has presented scholarly papers and given invited presentations to national and international research and policy organizations, such as the American Education Finance Association, American Educational Research Association, British Educational Management and Administration Society, Center for Budget Policy and Priorities, Education Writers Association, NAACP, National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration, and Organizations Concerned About Rural Education. She began her career as a public school teacher.

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