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Kacey Guin

Senior Portfolio Manager, Ballmer Group

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Background

Kacey Guin is a Senior Portfolio Manager for Ballmer Group’s Washington team, developing and managing local and regional investments focused on education and community impact. Kacey has dedicated her 20-year career to improving equitable outcomes for youth and families, holding key roles including Director of Greater Tacoma Community Foundation’s Whole Child Partnership, Director of Continuous Improvement for Seeding Success in Memphis, and Senior Program/Policy Advisor for the City of Seattle’s Department of Education.

Publications

What Is the Sum of the Parts? How Federal, State and District Funding Streams Confound Efforts to Address Different Student Types

This report demonstrates in greater detail than ever before how America’s methods of school finance work against a single-minded focus on student learning.
Marguerite Roza
Research Professor and Edunomics Lab Director, Georgetown University
Kacey Guin
Senior Portfolio Manager, Ballmer Group
Tricia Davis
Research Associate

Lessons from the Headlines: Key Questions for Districts Attempting to Close Schools

This brief touches on the experiences of urban school districts as they sought to close schools. It offers insight into the critical questions districts encountered...
Kacey Guin
Senior Portfolio Manager, Ballmer Group
Marguerite Roza
Research Professor and Edunomics Lab Director, Georgetown University

Spending Choices and School Autonomy: Lessons From Ohio Elementary Schools

This study examines resource allocation patterns across elementary schools and how these patterns differ depending, in part, on various levels of autonomy over resources at...
Marguerite Roza
Research Professor and Edunomics Lab Director, Georgetown University
Tricia Davis
Research Associate
Kacey Guin
Senior Portfolio Manager, Ballmer Group

No Longer the Only Game in Town: Helping Traditional Public Schools Compete

This report reveals how two very different school districts, Milwaukee and Dayton, are affected by and responding to the pressures of school choice.
Christine Campbell
Senior Fellow
Michael DeArmond
Principal
Kacey Guin
Senior Portfolio Manager, Ballmer Group
Deborah Warnock
Education Researcher
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