During the recent Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C. from June 29 through July 2, we had the opportunity to videotape eight attendees speaking forthrightly about their areas of expertise. We’ll be posting one of these each week for the next eight weeks.

This first installment features Lunda Asmani, Chief Financial Officer for Norwalk Public Schools in Connecticut and the new president of the GFOA. He speaks about three major challenges that he – and many others – confront when dealing with the nation’s schools: Aging infrastructure; difficulties in paying for special education and the contentious debates over what can and cannot be taught or read.