About Us
Professional Experience:
Terry specializes in analyzing accountability and assessment data to generate consumer-ready data displays. She facilitates data interpretation for school improvement purposes with district and campus leadership teams and models the statewide impact of policy changes in academic accountability. She has worked in the public education field for 23 years, starting as a school volunteer in Round Rock, moving to Austin ISD as a data analyst and later Coordinator of Accountability, and returning to Round Rock ISD where she was the Associate Director of Academic Data Analysis before joining Moak Casey.
Service Areas:
- Academics, Assessments & Accountability
- Legislative
Education:
- The University of Texas at Austin – Master of Arts
- The University of Texas at Austin – Bachelor of Arts
Professional Affiliations And Honors:
- Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)
Professional Experience:
Buck joined Moak Casey, and as its Chief Executive Officer, maintains focus on its guiding principle of a public service firm providing school finance and accountability analyses, leadership, and support to our clients. With almost 30 years of experience in Texas public schools, serving the last 15 as a superintendent first in a small, rural district, then in a mid-sized district and lastly in a multi-high school, fast growth district, he has extensive experience in successfully navigating his district through all areas of school finance and accountability including bond elections, TREs, budget planning, implementing Teacher Incentive programs and raising student performance on academic measures.
Service Areas:
- Strategic Thought, Design & Continuous Improvement
Education:
- Texas A & M University – Doctor of Education
- Tarleton State University – Master of Educational Administration
- University of North Texas – Bachelor of Arts
Professional Affiliations And Honors:
- Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)
Professional Experience:
Daniel Casey served as a partner of Moak Casey since its inception in 1998. Dan retired in 2022, but continues to serve the firm as a consultant. He serves as a senior consultant with the Fast Growth School Association and is recognized as one of the state’s leading experts on school district property taxes, economic development property value limitations, and freeport exemptions. He has assisted school districts in their consideration of more than 300 property value limitations for major economic development projects over the last 20 years. Dan has more than 40 years of public school and governmental finance experience. In addition to state agency service with the Texas State Comptroller’s Office and the Legislative Budget Board, Dan is also a former Associate Director for the Texas Association of School Boards. Over the past four decades, Dan has participated in a wide range of school finance and consulting activities.
Service Areas:
- Economic Development
- School Finance
- Legislative
Education:
- The University of Texas at Austin – Master of Public Affairs
- The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – Postgraduate study in the College of Education
- The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – Bachelor of Arts with Distinction
Professional Affiliations And Honors:
- American Economic Association (AEA)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- American Political Science Association (APSA)
- American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)
- American Statistical Association (ASA)
- Texas Association of School Business Officials (TASBO)
Publications:
- Walker, Billy D., and Casey, Daniel T, The Basics of Texas Public School Finance. Austin, Texas Association of School Boards, 1992.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Lynn Moak served as managing partner of Moak Casey since its inception in 1998. Lynn retired in 2022, but continues to serve the firm as a consultant. His vision of a public service firm capable of providing school finance and accountability analysis, leadership, and support continues to be the guiding principle of Moak Casey.
He has been involved in virtually every major education finance policy change since 1967 and has developed research presented in every major case regarding public school finance since the Edgewood litigation in 1984. He has specialized in large-scale data analysis, development of research-based school finance policy positions, and the integration of assessment, accountability, and finance issues.
Prior to 1998, he held senior staff positions in the Texas Education Agency, the Texas State Comptroller’s Office, and the Texas Lieutenant Governor’s Office.
SERVICE AREAS:
- School Finance
- Legislative
EDUCATION:
- The University of Texas at Austin – Graduate Studies
- The University of Texas at Austin – Bachelor of Arts
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND HONORS:
- Lifetime Achievement Award, National Education Finance Academy (NEFA)
- Region 4 ESC Superintendents Award
Board of Directors:
- National Education Finance Academy
- Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), formerly American Education Finance Association (AEFA)
Member:
- National Education Finance Academy
- Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA)
- Association of School Business Officials (ASBO)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
COMMUNITY:
- Paramount Theater, Advisory Council
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Lady Bird Society