Dr. Michelle Hall

Dr. Michelle Hall is the Director of Accreditation and Assessment in the Attallah college of Educational Studies. She is responsible for the oversight and management of Attallah College’s program improvement system, which entails all accreditation site visits and associated documents and reports. She also teaches in Attallah College's Integrated Educational Studies (IES) undergraduate and Ph.D. in Education programs.

Dr. Hall completed her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, specializing in the politics of education with a specific focus on equity and education policy & politics, finance, leadership, school-community engagement. Her research grows out of her past work in workforce investment policy and as a public school and university educator, and examines the ways in which power and politics affect and are affected by education reform policies. Her most recent research focuses on the role of local democratic engagement in state-wide finance and accountability reforms in California.

An active researcher with Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) since 2012, Dr. Hall contributes to the development and analysis of annual voter polls and policy briefs. Under the auspices of PACE, she has been an ongoing member of a statewide research team documenting the impact and early implementation of the new education finance system known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in California. Her work with the LCFF Research Collaborative investigates the ways in which LCFF advances equity and coherence and how districts are implementing the policy’s stakeholder engagement requirements, allocating resources.

Dr. Hall was also a member a statewide research team investigating the ways in which new accountability systems including measures of students’ Social Emotional Learning and school culture and climate, were being interpreted and implemented in the CORE Districts in California. She has taught at Teachers College at Columbia University.