Amanda E Danks

Amanda Danks is a senior researcher at AIR with extensive experience supporting investigations aimed at enhancing opportunity for learners of all backgrounds and abilities. Dr. Danks is highly skilled at understanding the costs associated with educational and social programs and policies, particularly for young children and children with disabilities. She leads AIR’s early childhood cost and finance work that aims to support states as they explore the cost of early education and child care and use information to shape program and funding policy. During her time at AIR, Dr. Danks has managed and supported a variety of projects aimed at estimating the cost of statewide policies undertaken by Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina (early education and care and Pre-K), Michigan (child care and early intervention), Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Texas along with targeted programs implemented by the Legal Aid Society of New York and the Duke Endowment Fund.