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Download full textTexas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Community and Technical Colleges. – 2001
This document provides summary statistics for public community and technical colleges in Texas. It is divided into two sections. Section 1 contains comparative financial data for all public community and technical college districts and systems, including tax base, collections and total assessed tax rates; total education and general fund…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Expenditures
Verstegen, Deborah A. – 1985
This paper describes funding formulas for the new Foundation School Program in Texas enacted under the Education Opportunity Act (H.B. 72), raises issues that have accompanied its first year of implementation, and provides preliminary data to compare prior and existing law. The state finance system, which previously distributed state aid according…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Ascher, Carol – 1993
The system of school finance equity in Texas is described as it existed before the court case Edgewood Independent School District (ISD) v. Kirby, and the overhaul mandated by legal rulings in the evolving Edgewood case is reviewed. In Texas, as elsewhere, the system of school finance has historically been based on the local property taxes…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Change
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. – 1996
This document presents text and graphs to provide a broad overview of financing for public higher education in Texas. Texas public institutions of higher education include more than 140 campuses with a total of $9.9 billion in appropriated funds for 1996-97. Universities receive $2,810,346,704 in general revenues for 35 institutions, and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Community Colleges, Expenditure per Student
Verstegen, Deborah A. – 1987
Wide scale reform in Texas education financing was enacted in 1984 under the Equal Education Opportunity Act (Texas House Bill 72). This paper examines the reform through an analysis of the newly enacted weighted pupil Foundation School Program (FSP) during the 1985-86 school year. Two modes of inquiry were used: correlational analysis between…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Policy Planning and Evaluation. – 1993
These two documents include information about the students, student performance, staffing, and financing of public schools in Texas. The annual summary, in conjunction with the separately published "Texas Public School Statistics: Pocket Edition 1992-93," provides a detailed look at public education in Texas. "Supplement '93,"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
