 | Michael Griffith Senior Policy Analyst, Education Commission of the States, Colorado Mike Griffith Mike Griffith serves as the Senior K-12 and Higher Education School Finance Analyst for the Education Commission of the States (ECS). He has worked in the field of education finance policy for the past 14 years with ECS, the consulting firm of Augenblick & Myers and the Michigan State Senate. Mike is an expert resource to national news media and has been quoted over 200 times by such outlets as: CNN, Education Week, The London Times, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and USA Today. Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University; a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration from The Ohio State University; and a Master of Arts degree in Education from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. View sessions with Michael Griffith |