Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey is Education Sector's research and policy manager. In 1995, Carey worked as an education finance analyst for the state of Indiana where he developed a new formula for setting local property taxes and distributing state education aid. He subsequently served as a senior analyst for the Indiana Senate Finance Committee, writing legislation and advising the Democratic caucus on fiscal policy. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Indiana's Assistant State Budget Director for Education, where he advised the governor on finance and policy issues in K–12 and higher education.

In 2001, Carey moved to Washington D.C., and became an analyst for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit research organization focused on policies that serve low- and moderate-income families. There he published new research on state poverty-based education funding programs. Carey subsequently worked at The Education Trust, where he was director of policy research. He wrote articles and publication on topics including: implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act; "value-added" measure of teacher effectiveness; state education funding disparities; using state education data systems to analyze minority participation in science and mathematics; improving the distribution of quality teachers to low-income and minority students; and increasing college graduation rates. He also designed and implemented the www.collegeresults.org graduation rate Web site.

Carey came to Education Sector in September 2005. In addition to managing the organization's policy team, he regularly contributes to the "Quick and the Ed" web log, and has published numerous articles, reports, book reviews, and op-eds, including two Education Sector reports: College Rankings Reformed, a blueprint for a new system of college rankings, and Hot Air, an analysis of how states inflate education progress under NCLB.

Carey holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Binghamton University and a Master of Public Administration from Ohio State University.