Wendi McCaskill, Director, Management Consulting Services, has two decades of broad experience in K-12 education finance and fiscal policy. Wendi is an expert in the attendance accounting and instructional time requirements of local educational agencies (LEAs), which play a critical role in independent study as well as the Local Control Funding Formula, other apportionments for LEAs, and the impacts of emergencies such as fires, floods, and the pandemic on LEA budgets.

Wendi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science, both from San Francisco State University. Immediately prior to joining School Services of California Inc., she served as the Associate Director of the School Fiscal Services Division at the California Department of Education (CDE) where she oversaw the apportionment of over $50 billion to LEAs through the Principal Apportionment and the CDE’s guidance on attendance accounting and instructional time.