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A Guide to Texas School Finance. Money and Education.

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Biles, Brenda L.; Ward, James F. – 1981

Part of a series on state educational finances, this manual aims to help Texas educators, legislators, and citizens understand school finance reforms by providing them with an overview of their state's public elementary and secondary education financing plan and by exploring selected issues in school finance. An introductory chapter traces the…

Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student

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