Public Policy Research

ISFIS staff puts its decades of collective public policy research experience to work, with expertise in education funding, enrollment and other demographic forecasting, state and local tax policy, and economic development case impact studies. We are also available to provide a critical review of other public policy research reports for accuracy and legitimacy.  Recent examples include understanding the impact of TIF on school budgets, reviewing history of class size funds, understanding value-added assessment models and rewriting the Iowa School Finance Formula.