Paul Bruno

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Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Institution
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email
pbruno@illinois.edu

Education

  • PhD, Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California
  • MA, Economics, University of Southern California
  • MA, Science and Math Education, University of California, Berkeley
  • BA, Philosophy/Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

Education Policy and Administration   Computer Science Education   Personnel Administration  

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Biography

I am an assistant professor of education policy, organization, and leadership in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I use quantitative methods to study school finance, school choice, resource allocation in schools, and teacher quality. In addition to writing policy briefs and reports for policymakers and practitioners, my research has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including Review of Public Personnel Administration, Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Education Finance, American Educational Research Journal, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. I completed a PhD in urban education policy and a MA in economics at the University of Southern California. Prior to enrolling at USC I earned a MA in science and math education and BAs in philosophy and molecular biology from the University of California, Berkeley and taught middle school science in Oakland and Los Angeles, California.

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List of Publications (38)
In 2024
38

Advances in the Understanding of Educator Labor Markets. Q Brummet, E Penner, M Kraft, P Bruno 2024 APPAM Fall Research Conference, 2024.

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37

Lessons learned from 10 years of California's Local Control Funding Formula. P Bruno, H Kim The Brookings Institution's Brown Center Chalkboard, 2024.

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36

Education hazards of generative AI. B Riley, P Bruno Cognitive Resonance, 2024.

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35

Unions, Monitoring, and Deferred Compensation: Evidence From California School Districts. P Bruno Review of Public Personnel Administration 44 (3), 472-492, 2024.

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In 2023
34

Pandemic-era school staff shortages: Evidence from unfilled position data in Illinois. P Bruno Available at SSRN 4306263, 2023.

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33

Goal-Congruity Theory Predicts Students' Sense of Belonging in Computing Across Racial/Ethnic Groups. K Isenegger, KL George, P Bruno, CM Lewis Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science ..., 2023.

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Analyzing the Effects of CTE Grant Funding on CS Course Offerings and Enrollment in California. M Saffar Perez, P Bruno Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science ..., 2023.

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31

What the Unwinding of Federal Covid-Relief Funding Means for the Teacher Labor Market. T Toch, D Goldhaber, P Bruno, G Zamarro, T Kilbride 2023 APPAM Fall Research Conference, 2023.

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30

Staffing Challenges and Diversity in the Educator Workforce. G Zamarro, P Saenz-Amstrong, P Bruno, A Camp, L Kaler SREE 2023 Conference, 2023.

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29

The effect of computer science course-taking on science outcomes in Chicago Public Schools. P Bruno, M Polikoff The Learning Partnership, 2023.

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In 2022
28

Is There a National Teacher Shortage? A Systematic Examination of Reports of Teacher Shortages in the United States. EdWorkingPaper No. 22-631. TD Nguyen, CB Lam, P Bruno Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022.

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27

The effects of charter school enrollment losses and tuition reimbursements on school districts: Lifting boats or sinking them?. BA Mann, P Bruno Educational Policy 36 (5), 1078-1107, 2022.

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26

Computer Science Trends and Trade-Offs in California High Schools. P Bruno, CM Lewis Educational Administration Quarterly 58 (3), 386-418, 2022.

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25

Figuring Out When to Panic About "Teacher Shortages": How journalism could clarify stories about teacher hiring problems. P Bruno Education Next, 2022.

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24

Four Practical Challenges for High School Computer Science. P Bruno, M Saffar Pe rez, CM Lewis Policy Analysis for California Education, 2022.

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23

Weighted Student Funding and the Incentives of Charter Schools. P Bruno Recent Advancements in Education Finance and Policy; Information Age ..., 2022.

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22

What We Know About the Impacts of Charter Schools on District School Finances. P Bruno Charter School Funding Considerations, 115-145, 2022.

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In 2021
21

The Rural/Nonrural Divide? K-12 District Spending and Implications of Equity-Based School Funding. TK Dhaliwal, P Bruno AERA Open 7 (1), 2021.

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20

The Effect of Teachers' Union Contracts on School District Efficiency: Longitudinal Evidence From California. BD Marianno, P Bruno, KO Strunk SAGE Open 11 (1), 2021.

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19

Equity in high school computer science: Beyond access. P Bruno, CM Lewis Policy Futures in Education, 14782103211063002, 2021.

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18

What pandemic-related test waiver requests suggest about states' testing priorities. P Bruno, D Goldhaber Phi Delta Kappan 103 (3), 48-53, 2021.

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17

Reflections on What Pandemic-Related State Test Waiver Requests Suggest About the Priorities for the Use of Tests. P Bruno, D Goldhaber National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2021.

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16

OPEB Accounting and Teacher Diversity. P Bruno Journal of Education Human Resources 39 (2), 214-238, 2021.

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In 2020
15

Taking their first steps: The distribution of new teachers in school and classroom contexts and implications for teacher effectiveness. P Bruno, SJ Rabovsky, KO Strunk American Educational Research Journal 57 (4), 1688-1729, 2020.

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14

The Causes of Teacher Salary Schedule Frontloading. P Bruno 2020 APPAM Fall Research Conference, 2020.

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13

Teacher Screening and Hiring: Lessons from the Los Angeles Unified School District. P Bruno Education Policy Innovation Collaborative. East Lansing, MI, 2020.

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In 2019
12

Alignment of Goals and Perceptions of Computing Predicts Students' Sense of Belonging in Computing. C Lewis, P Bruno, J Raygoza, J Wang Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education ..., 2019.

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11

Making the Cut: The Effectiveness of Teacher Screening and Hiring in the Los Angeles Unified School District. P Bruno, KO Strunk Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 41 (4), 426-460, 2019.

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10

Charter competition and district finances: Evidence from California. P Bruno Journal of Education Finance 44 (4), 361-384, 2019.

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9

The Challenges of Health and Welfare Benefit Costs for California Districts. P Bruno Policy Analysis for California Education. Stanford, CA, 2019.

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8

School districts must do more to manage costs of health benefits. P Bruno EdSource, 2019.

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7

A Tough Assignment. P Bruno Educational Leadership 77 (1), 72-76, 2019.

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In 2018
6

District dollars 2: California school district finances, 2004-5 through 2016-17. P Bruno Getting Down to Facts II, 2018.

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5

Effects of the local control funding formula on revenues, expenditures, and student outcomes. RC Johnson, P Bruno, S Tanner Getting Down To Facts II, Research Briefs, 1-13, 2018.

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4

Working toward K-12 funding adequacy: California's current policies and funding levels. J Imazeki, P Bruno, J Levin, I Brodziak de los Reyes, D Atchison Getting down to facts II, 2018.

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In 2017
3

An effective teacher for every student: Developing a research agenda to further policy change. KO Strunk, JA Marsh, P Bruno January, 2017.

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In 2016
2

Overregulation Theory isn't enough to explain negative voucher effects. P Bruno .

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In 2015
1

The importance of the teacher supply to education reform. P Bruno .

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