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The Texas Public Education Challenge. Texas Trilogy on Public Education and Taxes. Policy Brief No. 1
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McCown, F. Scott – Center for Public Policy Priorities, 2006
This is the first in a trilogy of policy briefs discussing public education and taxes. This brief discusses the challenge facing Texas in funding public education. It also explains why the Texas Supreme Court's recent decision in "West Orange-Cove II" requires increased state appropriations for public education.
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Finance, Government School Relationship, School Support
Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District
NOLPE School Law Journal, 1972
Contains the full text of the Texas case finding that the current method of funding public education in that State violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. (JF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Equal Education, Equal Protection
Protecting Public Education: From Tax Giveaways to Corporations. Property Tax Abatements, Tax Increment Financing, and Funding for Schools. NEA Research Working Paper.
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National Education Association, Washington, DC. Research Div. – 2003
This report describes a study aimed to help education advocates protect public schools and services from the effects of certain types of economic development subsidies. These subsidies include cutting companies' property taxes and granting long-term diversions of certain districts' property taxes to corporations making investment in those…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Corporations, Economics of Education, Educational Finance
A Study of School Finance: Local Property Tax Burden Variance, Alternative Finance Formulas and/or Formula Adjustments, Cost-of-Living and Cost-of-Education Education Index. Report to the Legislative Budget Board and The Sixty-Eighth Legislature.
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1983
Three basic issues were examined in this study: (1) the variance in the purchasing power of the dollar among Texas school districts, (2) the variance in local property tax burden among Texas school districts, and (3) consideration of alternative Texas school finance formulas. Data used were from the data banks of the Texas Education Agency and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Indexes, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance