Skip to main content

Mobile Navigation

  • National
    • Policy
      • High Expectations
      • Quality Choices
      • Personalized Pathways
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Gadfly Newsletter
      • Flypaper Blog
    • Events
    • Scholars Program
  • Ohio
    • Policy
      • Priorities
      • Media & Testimony
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Ohio Education Gadfly Biweekly
      • Ohio Gadfly Daily
  • Charter Authorizing
    • Application
    • Sponsored Schools
    • Resources
  • About
    • Mission
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Career
Home
Home
Advancing Educational Excellence

Main Navigation

  • National
  • Ohio
  • Charter Authorizing
  • About

About Menu

  • Mission
  • Staff
  • Board
  • Careers
  • Annual Report

Kai Filipczak

Koch Summer Fellow

Kai Filipczak is a twenty-year-old graduate student working towards a master's degree in public policy at Georgetown University. His primary research interests include charter schools, K-12 school choice, and gifted education policy. He worked for the Fordham Institute as part of the Koch Summer Fellows Program, a ten-week fellowship for students interested in promoting liberty. Prior to joining Fordham, he spent two years as a research assistant at the Center for Education Reform, where he focused on charter school achievement testing and student demography. He also hosts a weekly electronic music radio show on the Georgetown University student radio station; tune in for lots of terrible jokes and awesome tunes! In his free time he loves skateboarding, playing the bass guitar, and camping.

Authored Commentary & Research

view

Pay Teachers More: Financial Planning for Reach Models

Kai Filipczak 8.15.2012
OhioBlog
view

Prediction: STEM push will bear no fruit

Kai Filipczak 8.6.2012
NationalFlypaper
view

The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement: Deemphasizing the Role of Master’s Degrees in Teacher Compensation

Kai Filipczak 7.25.2012
OhioBlog
view

Special Reports on School Improvement Grants

Kai Filipczak 7.18.2012
OhioBlog
view

The Inclusion of Students With Disabilities in School Accountability Systems: Interim Report

Kai Filipczak 6.27.2012
OhioBlog
Fordham Logo

© 2026 The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Privacy Policy
Usage Agreement

National

P.O. Box 110
Burke, VA 22009

202.223.5452

[email protected]

Ohio

P.O. Box 82291
Columbus, OH 43202

614.223.1580

[email protected]

Sponsorship

130 West Second Street, Suite 410
Dayton, Ohio 45402

937.227.3368

[email protected]