Heather Rose

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Heather Rose
Professor, College of Education,
University of California, Davis

Heather Rose is a professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She is also an adjunct fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California. Rose specializes in the economics of K–12 education, school finance, and education policy and governance, with an emphasis on quantitative methods. Her recent work includes analyses of school finance reform proposals in California and the creation of a model for simulating the effects of new funding formulas. Her current projects include a study of how spending patterns in California charter schools differ from those of traditional public schools. Rose received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego.

updated 2025

Contributing topics
Access, quality & alignment in early childhood education
College access & postsecondary success
Continuous school improvement & support
Education finance
Educational governance & policy
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
Getting Down To Facts II
Commentary by Heather Rose
: Do Charter Schools Spend Revenue Differently than Traditional Public Schools?
Heather Rose in the Media
: California K–12 Funding, Governance Still Troubled, Report Says
Publications by Heather Rose
Getting Down To Facts
Five Years Later
This report commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Getting Down to Facts project, which sought to provide a thorough and reliable analysis of the critical challenges facing California’s education system as the necessary basis for an informed…