Professor
Ph.D., RAND Graduate School

E-Mail: lpicus@almaak.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2175
Office: WPH 904C
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Lawrence O. Picus is a Professor at the USC Rossier School of Education. His current research interests focus on adequacy and equity in school finance as well as efficiency and productivity in the provision of educational programs for PreK-12 school children. Picus is past-president of the American Education Finance Association. He has been a member of the EdSource Board of Directors for ten years.

Picus' most recent books include: School Finance: A Policy Perspective 4th Edition (2008) with Allan Odden; In Search of More Productive Schools: A Guide to Resource Allocation in Education, published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management in January, 2001; and Developing Community Empowered Schools (Corwin, 2001), coauthored with Mary Ann Burke. He has also published numerous articles in professional journals. Picus has consulted extensively on school finance issues in more than 20 states, and conducted adequacy studies in Arkansas, Arizona, Kentucky, Wyoming, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Washington.