Michael F. Addonizio is Associate Professor of Educational Administration at Wayne State University. His research interests include elementary and secondary education finance and educational productivity. His recent work has focused on nontraditional sources of school revenue, the equity and adequacy effects of school finance reform in Michigan, and the relationship between class size and student achievement.
Dr. Addonizio has taught at Wayne State since 1994. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Superintendent for Policy and Research for the Michigan Department of Education and as Education Policy Advisor for Governor John Engler of Michigan. He has also taught at Indiana-Purdue University in Fort Wayne and served as a school finance analyst for the Michigan Senate Appropriations Committee.
Dr. Addonizio received the Jean Flanagan Award for the Outstanding Dissertation in Education Finance in 1988 from the American Education Finance Association, and served on the Association's Board of Directors from 1987 to 1990. Dr. Addonizio received his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University in 1988.
