Executive Vice President
Antony Rolle
Anthony Rolle, Ph.D. is Principal and Executive Vice President of Wood, Rolle & Associates. He is Department Chair and Professor at the University of South Florida. Previously, he has held professorial positions at North Carolina State University, Vanderbilt University, and Texas A & M University.
Dr. Rolle's research regarding the financing of public education has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and he has presented frequently at national scholarly research organizations such as the American Education Finance Association and the American Educational Research Association. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Education Finance Association. He has served as guest editor and has published in the Peabody Journal of Education and published in the Journal of Education Finance. Additionally he is a co-author of Modern Education Finance and Policy.
His current research examines the equity and adequacy of education finance distribution formulas as well as the examination of organizational productivity and economic efficiency of public schools. His education finance research also explores and applies measures of vertical equity to the analysis that demographic difference among communities. He received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Santa Clara University, Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs and his Ph.D. in Educational Policy Analysis from the School of Education at Indiana University. Dr. Rolle received the American Education Finance Association's Jean Flanigan Dissertation Award for his empirical work that modified budget-maximizing theory and traditional concepts of efficiency in public education.
