His specialties are Education finance and policy, program evaluation and school segregation. Professor Bifulco teaches Education Policy, Public Budgeting, and Economics for Public Decisions. He earned his MPA (1994) and PhD (2001) from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. His most recent article “The Fiscal Impacts of Charter Schools: Lessons from New York” (with R. Reback), can be found in Education Finance and Policy, (Winter 2014, Vol. 9, No. 1, pgs 86-107).