Robert Miyashiro, Vice President

Robert Miyashiro is a School Services of California Vice President.  Since becoming a member of the firm, he has worked on numerous consulting projects, including budget reviews, efficiency studies, retirement system analyses, and CBO searches. In addition, he provides consulting services on state mandate issues. Robert also monitors the condition of the State Budget and evaluates developments in the state and national economies. He tracks General Fund revenues for the company and projects Proposition 98 funding levels.

Prior to his work with School Services, Robert spent 22 years in numerous fiscal agencies of state government. He most recently served as the Deputy Director of the Department of Finance, where he was a member of the executive management team, providing the Governor and the Director with analyses and advice on legislative, budget, and policy issues facing the state. Prior to that, he served as the Director of the Education Finance Division in the Department of Education, overseeing the apportionment of over $25 billion in state funds to local education agencies for the Principal Apportionment and numerous categorical programs.

Robert has also served the California Legislature directly as a Principal Consultant for the Assembly Budget Committee and the  Assembly Ways and Means Committee and through the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. In these positions he was responsible for analyzing the Governor’s Budget proposals for K-12 education and the California Community Colleges, including Proposition 98, special education and general education apportionments.

Robert also served as Director of Expenditure Forecasting for the Commission on State Finance. In this capacity, he directed a small staff to develop near term and long term projections of caseload and costs for the state’s major General Fund programs, including Proposition 98, Medi-Cal, Corrections and Higher Education.

Robert graduated from the University of California,  Berkeley, with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science and from  Harvard University with a Masters degree in Public Policy.