Robert Bifulco
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Associate Dean and Chair, Public Administration and International Affairs
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Degree
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2001
Specialties
Education finance and policy; program evaluation
Courses
Summer 2017-Summer Session I
PAI 752.001 MPA Workshop M-F 8:00-4:30
Biography
Robert Bifulco is Professor of Public Administration at Syracuse
University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His
research has focused on the evaluation of educational policies including whole-school
reform, school accountability programs, charter schools, magnet schools and
student assignment policies. He has prepared analyses of school finance
issues and the design of state aid formulas for Governor M. Jodi Rell’s
Commission on Education Finance and for the plaintiffs in the Connecticut
school finance case CCJEF v. Rell. His work has appeared in the American
Economic Journal, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Education Finance and Policy
among other academic journals. More
Publications
Selected Papers
Research Interests
Education Finance
Education Policy
Program Evaluation
Research Grants and Awards
“Third-Party
Evaluation of Say Yes in Buffalo.” Say Yes Foundation. July 2013 – June 2017.