Matthew Di Carlo is a senior fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute in Washington, DC. His current research focuses on school finance, school segregation, and school and teacher accountability systems. Bruce D. Baker is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami and the author of School Finance and Education Equity: Lessons from Kansas and Educational Inequality and School Finance: Why Money Matters for America's Students. He has consulted with numerous states on school finance reforms and testified in state and federal courts as an expert witness across the country for the past 20 years.