Resources
Reports
- What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance? Education Policy Institute
- The Impact of State Budget Cuts on School Districts in Texas: Office of State Representative Lon Burnam (January 2013)
- 2012 PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
- National Center for Educational Statistics: The Condition of Education 2012
- Friends of Texas Public Schools: The numbers don’t lie: Athletics strengthens student performance and doesn’t even cost that much
- Texas Education Agency Compact Graduation Rate Results for 2010 (pdf)
- Revisiting the Age-Old Question: Does Money Matter in Education (pdf): Albert Shanker Institute
- Report on State End-of Course Tests: Moak, Casey & Associates
- Texas Budget Highlights Fiscal Year 2012-13 (pdf): Texas House of Representatives House Research Organization
- 2010-2011 AEIS Reports: Texas Education Agency
- How Did State Budget Cuts Impact School District Staffing Levels: Preliminary Information from 2011-12: Moak, Casey and Associates
- 2011 Public Education Poll: Texans agree public schools need more state money (pdf)
- 2011 Texas Lyceum Poll: Education—most important problem facing Texas (pdf)
- Report from the Census Bureau on spending on schools from the Dallas Business Journal (pdf)
- Financial Mandates on School Districts, Texas Association of School Business Officials (pdf)
- Tracking the Education Dollar in Public Schools: 2011 update (pdf)
- A Cost Analysis for Texas Public Schools: 2008 update (pdf)
- Education Funding: “Money Does Matter” Texas Equity Center
- 2010 Texas Fact Book from the Legislative Budget Board (pdf)
Videos
- Who Serves on School Boards … and Why Board Service Matters videos, Texas Association of School Boards
- What I Wish People Knew about Public Schools, Texas Association of School Boards
- Board Members Discuss Budget Cuts, Texas Association of School Boards
- 2013 Texas Public Schools Rock Student Video Contest, Texas Association of School Boards
- Advocacy in Action: Public School Funding, Texas Association of School Boards
Issue briefs and white papers
- What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance? Education Policy Institute
- Responses to Questions Regarding Increases in Education Staff and Expenditures: Moak, Casey & Associates
- The Federal Accountability System Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 2001 reauthorization Titled “No Child Left Behind Act” (pdf)
- Accountability Ratings: The “TPM Effect” (pdf)
- Sources of Revenue for Public Education (doc)
- Why Has The Cost of Public Education Risen Faster Than Inflation? (pdf)
- School District Staff (pdf). Just how many nonteaching staff are there, and what do they do?
- School District Fund Balances (pdf). A brief explanation of what school district fund balances are and why districts maintain them.
- Funding School Facilities (pdf). A look at the way schools pay for their facilties.
- Target Revenue (pdf). An explanation of how most school districts in Texas are funded.
- Texas Education Agency: School Finance Topics – One Page Descriptions
- Issue: Proration of School District Funding (pdf)
Additional sites
- TASBO: Chronology of Robin Hood Payments by School Districts in Map of Texas
- Texas Education Agency’s School Finance
- Texas Education Agency’s School Finance 101: Funding of Texas Public Schools (pdf)
- An Introduction to School Finance in Texas (pdf; May 2010). Texas Taxpayers and Research Foundation
- Center for Public Education: “Cutting to the Bone: How the Economic Crisis Affects Schools “
- Friends of Texas Public Schools
