The Corrections and Community Engagement Technical Assistance Center (CCETAC) at AIR aimed to address challenges through evidence-based approaches. Through CCETAC, AIR provided capacity-building training and technical assistance to Category 1 Second Chance Act grantees.
The School Improvement Grant (SIG) program will expire as ESSA is implemented, but the challenges of low-performing schools have not. SIG provided some promising examples, as well as caveats that can challenge and inform those of us who believe our nation’s most disadvantaged students deserve better. In our latest blog ...
For the DOL’s Chief Evaluation Office, AIR and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research built a microsimulation model to simulate policies for paid worker leave in the U.S. The goal of this study was to create a publicly available paid leave microsimulation tool that is open-source and based on the ...
Cindy Van is a senior researcher in the Health Division at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include guiding performance improvement, providing technical leadership on learning system strategies, and developing creative solutions to address client needs. Van leads and contributes to tasks on federally funded projects. She has extensive experience in leading ...
David E. Hayes-Bautista is Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in the Division of General Internal Medicine. For over three decades he has researched the Latino Epidemiological Paradox and its ...
Holly DePatie is a research associate at AIR with experience supporting research design and implementation. They primarily serve as a project manager on projects that focus on health equity and social determinants of health. They have interest in making research more inclusive, representative, and accessible for all demographics.They have experience ...
Edward Hamburg is an advisory partner with Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and serves on several boards of directors for high technology companies.Previously, Hamburg was executive vice president of corporate operations and chief financial officer of SPSS Inc., which before its 2009 acquisition by IBM was a global provider of predictive ...
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From 1992–2004, the Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF)—a national technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs—addressed fiscal policy questions related to the delivery and support of special education throughout the United States. A major undertaking for CSEF was the Special Education ...
Jacqueline Triplett serves as the director of procurement and subcontracts at AIR, where she collaborates closely with business development and the contracts and grants office to oversee the entire lifecycle and administration of federal and commercial subcontracts and grants, including all purchasing functions.With over 20 years of experience in federal ...