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3 Document(s) [ Subject: High school graduation rates ]
Committee: | House Public Education | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report to the 79th Legislature | |
Subjects: | High school graduation rates | Lobbyists | Military families | School dropouts | School finance | School year | Special education | Teacher certification | Teachers | Textbooks | University Interscholastic League | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.78 Ed84h | |
Session: | 78th R.S. (2003) | |
Online version: | View report [61 pages File size: 383 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Assess the textbook adoption and distribution system. Investigate alternative methods of delivering educational resources using technology. | |
2. | Evaluate the extent to which public school tax dollars are used directly or indirectly to promote or oppose legislation. | |
3. | Perform a comprehensive analysis of state law with respect to educator contracts and certification. Make recommendations for changes which would improve student performance. | |
4. | Examine and assess the effectiveness and efficiency of statewide educational initiatives, including programs to reduce dropout and increase graduation rates. | |
5. | Investigate and assess the mission and performance of University Interscholastic League and other quasi-educational organizations in terms of their role in improving student achievement. | |
6. | Compare special education laws in Texas to other states and to federal standards. Make recommendations for reducing state and local administrative costs to increase resource allocation for direct services to students. | |
7. | Examine the impact on students, schools and local economies from changes to the school start date. | |
8. | Examine issues related to state aid to school districts for debt service, including issues related to the type of facilities that should be eligible for state support. | |
9. | Study and monitor issues related to the educational needs of dependents of military service men and women, including records transfer and implementation of reciprocity agreements with other states. | |
Committee: | House Public Education | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 66th Legislature : report of the / Committee on Public Education, Texas House of Representatives, 65th Legislature. | |
Subjects: | Curriculum | Education Agency, Texas | High school graduation rates | High school graduation requirements | School districts | Special education | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.65 ed83p | |
Session: | 65th R.S. (1977) | |
Online version: | View report [66 pages File size: 2,086 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Oversight responsibility of agency expenditures and related transactions. This function shall encompass a review and monitoring of all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes during the 65th Regular Session of the Legislature, to wit: State Board of Education (Central Education Agency) (Schools for the Blind and Deaf) | |
2. | A study of the possibilities of an "early graduation" program from public schools. This study should include recommendations as to the means by which such a program could be initiated and enacted as well as a review of alternatives to twelve full years of public education, such as vocational and technical programs and training in lieu of traditional courses. | |
3. | A review the impact of the federal regulations and judicial interpretations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as that act pertains to education and its various component parts in the public sector in Texas. This study should assess the fiscal and policy ramifications of this legislation and make recommendations as to necessary implementing legislation therefor. | |
4. | A study of the administration of large school districts. This study should include a review of the advisability of and methodology of reorganization of large school districts; recommendations on how best to deal legislatively with problems associated with these districts, such as teacher morale, increased violence, access to supervisory personnel, discipline problems, accountability to taxpayers and parents, and increasingly lower test and achievement scores. | |
5. | A study of the effects and ramifications of a "quarter system" on the curriculum and effectiveness of public schools. | |
Supporting documents | ||
Committee: | House Public Education | |
Title: | Cost and Student Data Based on G.O.E.R. Property Values | |
Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
Library Call Number: | L1801.9 ED83H 65 | |
Session: | 65th R.S. (1977) | |
Online version: | View document [549 pages] |
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