William T. Hartman

Professor of Education

Educational Leadership
204A Rackley Building
University Park, PA 16802
Email: hli@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-3765
Fax: 814-865-1480

Introduction

Dr. Hartman is a Professor of Education in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University and a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Center for Total Quality Schools at Penn State. He is a recipient of the Graduate Faculty Teaching Award for the University for 1999. Prior to coming to Penn State in 1986, he was on the faculty at the University of Oregon and Stanford University. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Education Finance Association. He was a Visiting Fellow in Education at the University of Sussex in 1994 and a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University in 2003. As the Principal Investigator, he has recently completed a major federal project, Linking School Level Resources with Student Outcomes, to develop methodologies for creating school-level resource utilization and productivity reports from existing district and state data.  His areas of research include school-level data analysis, resource allocation at the school and district levels, school budgeting, special education finance, school finance equity, total quality management in education, and financial models in educational leadership. His latest books are School District Budgeting (1999) and Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education (1998). He has served as a consultant to various government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, to research organizations, to private industry, and to special interest groups in education. 

Areas of Expertise

• School-level Data Analysis
• Resource Allocation in Education
• School Budgeting Practices
• Special Education Funding
• Education Finance and Equity
• Financial Modeling in Educational Leadership
• Total Quality Management in Education
• Educational Policy Analysis

Publications

See a complete list here.

Professional Experience & Activities

• Principal Investigator, Linking School-level Resources with Student Outcomes, an IES funded project to create school-level resource utilization and productivity reports from existing district and state data.
• American Journal of Education. Consulting Editor.
• Education Finance and Policy. Editorial Board.
• Member, Ethics Subcommittee, Association of School Business Officials, International.

• Executive Director, Center for Total Quality Schools, Penn State University.
• Principal Investigator, Links with Suppliers project, an IBM funded grant to study the articulation of high school and college curricula.
• Continuous Quality Improvement Award from Penn State University.
• Director of Benchmarking in School Business Management Project.
• Expert testimony on school finance before Pennsylvania Senate and House Legislative committees.
• Graduate Faculty Teaching Award, Penn State University.
• Technical Advisory Group member for National Special Education Expenditure Project.
• Editorial Advisory Board, Educational Considerations.
• Consultant to the Pennsylvania Department of Education for studies of special education finance and funding formulas, educational finance analysis and information projects.

Education

• Ph.D. Stanford University, March 1979. Administration and Policy Analysis. Dissertation: Estimating the Costs of Educating Handicapped Children: A Resource-Cost Model Approach
• M.B.A. Harvard University, 1967. Management Control and Marketing (J. Spencer Love Fellowship)
• B.M.E. University of Florida, 1965. Mechanical Engineering (high honors, Tau Beta Pi)