Aaron Smith
Education Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Aaron Garth Smith is an education policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Prior to joining Reason, Aaron was senior director of analytics at YES Prep Public Schools, a nationally renowned charter management organization serving nearly 10,000 students. At YES, Aaron was the founding member of the analytics department and oversaw research, state accountability, and data management. In 2012, he was selected by Texas Charter School Association to serve on the on the Accountability Policy Advisory Committee for the State of Texas where he worked with superintendents, business executives, and policy leaders to develop an accountability system that was implemented state-wide.
Aaron graduated from University of Maine with a bachelor's degree in business administration and earned a Master of Business Administration from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. Aaron is based in Houston, Texas.
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Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, January and February 2016
“So where the public hears about efforts to close achievement gaps between minorities and white students or between higher-performing and lower-performing students, in truth different parts of the finance system are directly at odds with those stated obje
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School Districts Shortchange Disadvantaged Students
Without transparent funding and school-level financial data available, it is impossible for parents and the public to account for taxpayer dollars going to education.
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Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, December 2015
“Great leaders need to be making those decisions about their schools. They have the local context. They know their students. We want to have the ability to make decisions about how to support them.”
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