Karen Manship has conducted cost analyses for a number of projects during her time at AIR, including the Packard Foundation-sponsored Preschool Technical Assistance Research and Development Project, Preschool Technical Assistance for Sonoma County, the Independent Comprehensive Study of New Mexico Public School Funding, the First 5 Los Angeles Family Literacy Evaluation, and the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind. She currently provides support to California counties in regard to cost estimates for preschool. Before joining AIR, Ms. Manship was a Statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics, responsible for longitudinal survey design and data analysis for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies program. She also served as an analyst on the School Finance Redesign Project at the University of Washington, a multi-university project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.