Roger Hatch, now retired and working as a consultant, spent a long career working for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the areas of school and municipal finance. For 20 years he was the Administrator of School Finance at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. In addition to supervising the school choice program, the office works with the Governor’s staff, the legislature, advocacy groups, local officials and the general public, to develop, calculate, and explain the Chapter 70 state aid formula. Prior to 1997 he was the Local Aid and Municipal Data Bank Coordinator at the Department of Revenue’s Division of Local Services.