Jason Willis is a Senior Fellow with the Strategic Resource Allocation and Systems Planning Team of WestEd. Willis has advised states, national education organizations, and commissions on the formation of funding, governance, and integrated service delivery for children, youth, and families. He provides support through research, policy analysis, and technical assistance to leaders across multiple child-serving agencies. He has worked with over two dozen states’ executive and legislative branches in these areas as well as organizations such as the National Governor’s Association and the National Equity and Excellence Commission. Willis has served on various technical working groups studying school systems’ use of education funding, the impact of weighted student funding systems, and state deregulation of school funding.
Previously, Willis was a practitioner in larger urban school systems in California serving as Assistant Superintendent and Chief Business Official in San Jose Unified School District, Stockton Unified School District, and Oakland Unified School District.
Willis is also a Clinical Professor of Public Policy at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. He also is a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Management and the Business Executives Leadership program for the California Association of School Business Officials.
Willis has an MA in education policy and finance from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.