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Certificate in Education Finance

Program Highlights

The one-of-a-kind Certificate in Education Finance (CEF) equips participants with the practical skills they need in strategic fiscal management, policy analysis, and leadership to deploy resources in ways that do the most for students. Read our CEF Flyer.

Residency Dates

The 2-day spring 2023 residency will be held on March 29-30 in New York City OR April 12-13 in the Los Angeles, CA area.

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  • Type of Degree

    Non-degree Certificate

  • Format

    Hybrid

  • Length

    Two-day Residency, Six Virtual Sessions

  • Department

    Executive Education


About the Program

The three-month program is designed for working professionals. Participants attend a two-day, in-person, group live session with six follow-up modules of group internet-based interactive virtual learning (each 2-3 hours).

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Leadership and Expertise

Dr. Marguerite Roza

The Certificate in Education Finance is led and taught by Dr. Marguerite Roza, Research Professor at Georgetown University and Director of the Edunomics Lab.

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Guest Speakers

Leaders from across the education sector are integrated throughout the program, bringing expertise on teacher compensation, pensions and benefits, higher education, state and federal policy, and more.

Participants

Cohort Profile

CEF participants complete the program as part of a cohort. Participants may include, but are not limited to: school principals and leaders, central office leadership, education policymakers, analysts, graduate students, grantmakers, and nonprofit leaders.

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Participant Experience

Participant Experience

Participants report that working with and learning from professionals across a wide swath of roles in the education sector is invaluable in helping them effectively apply their newfound skills.

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Course Overview and Credits

Course Overview and Credits

The program emphasizes practical skills and application while learning through a combination of interactive classroom instruction, reading, self-reflection, and hands-on practice. Areas of study include allocation and accountability structures, instruction delivery model impacts and implications, effects of ESSA and state policy in local context, productivity analyses, and common (but often ill-understood) cost drivers in education. This is a comprehensive overview course; there are no prerequisites and no advance preparation required. Participants can earn 3.0 CEUs, 36 CPEs, or 30 PDCs.

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Learning Goals

Participants will learn:

  • How policy affects equity and resource use.
  • How to more effectively consume and use education finance information at the federal, state, and local levels in the K-12 education system.
  • How to more strategically drive resource allocation decisions to reach desired outcomes and avoid unintended consequences that can negatively impact students, schools, and communities.
  • How to understand and effectively grapple with the challenges of productivity and financial tradeoffs in an environment of finite education dollars.
  • How to communicate finance strategy and decisions.

Tuition and Expenses

CEF tuition is $3,500 per participant. Additional individual expenses vary as tuition does not include airfare or accommodations. For more information on tuition and opportunities for financial assistance, email ELabCEF@georgetown.edu.

Questions?

For general inquiries about CEF, please contact the Edunomics Lab Team at ELabCEF@georgetown.edu.

Edunomics Lab Certificate in Education Finance is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. On successful program completion, participants earn 48 CPE credits. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
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