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15 Document(s) [ Subject: Educational adequacy ]
| Committee: | House Education | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | A time for change towards quality and equality : report of the House Education Committee. | |
| Subjects: | Educational accountability | Educational adequacy | School finance | Tax administration | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.63 ed832 | |
| Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
| Online version: | View report [40 pages File size: 3,906 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Prepare, polish and refine HB 946, 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, and have it ready for legislative action no later than September 15, 1973. | |
| 2. | Study the current school finance system in Texas. Evaluate school district organization, student performance, personnel policies, revenues, expenditures, salary levels and enrichment. * | |
| 3. | Develop a method of measuring the wealth of school districts and evaluate tax assessment practices. * | |
| 4. | Develop recommendations for disbursement of funds, considering such questions as the proper student-teacher ratios, what supportive staff should be provided, the level of operation and maintenance costs necessary to maintain a proper educational atmosphere, the type and amount of transportation funds that should be provided, whether local leeway should be included, and the level of compensatory education. Establish methods for measuring the quality of education. * | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Final report of the Gilmer-Aikin Committee : report of Joint Committee, known as Gilmer-Aikin Committee, pursuant to House concurrent resolution no. 48 as adopted by the regular session of the 50th Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Education reform | Educational adequacy | Educational equity | School attendance | School district consolidation | School districts | School finance | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421 | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Online version: | View report [34 pages File size: 2,181 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Study unequal educational opportunities and all other questions relating to improvement of the public school system of Texas, and particularly with a view to effecting school district reorganization; obtaining uniform and adequate local support in the financing of an adequate, improved, and uniform school program for Texas; that necessary and suitable steps be taken to obtain the desired attendance in the schools by the children of Texas, and at least to an extent comparable with other states; that the School Laws of Texas be revised and codified; that the methods, systems, and policies of the other States of the United States, upon like subjects, be studied and recommended, where deemed applicable to Texas; and that unnecessary division and differences among school organizations, interests, and groups be ascertained and determined to the end that the best educational advantages may be obtained for the greatest number as promptly and possible. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - A memorandum regarding state management of education in Texas | |
| Library Catalog Title: | A memorandum regarding state management of education in Texas | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421SM | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - Digest of state arrangements for the state management of education | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Digest of state arrangements for the state management of education : based on reports in State boards of education and chief state school officers / by W.S. Deffenbaugh and Ward W. Keesecker ; compiled at the request of the Subcommittee on State Organizat | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421D | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - Financing public education in Texas : a proposed plan | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Financing public education in Texas : a proposed plan | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421F | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - Let's look at our local schools in Texas | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Let's look at our local schools in Texas : guides for county committees in the study of their local school systems | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421L | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - Must! or which way, G-A? | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Must! or which way, G-A? | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421H | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - Present status of education in Texas | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Present status of education in Texas : organization, administration, and support : a brief report | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421P | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - Summaries and excerpts dealing with the state's responsibility for public schools | |
| Library Catalog Title: | [Summaries and excerpts from books, reports, and articles dealing with the state's responsibility for public school curricula and textbooks]. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421SB | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - The Fourth R, responsibility of the states in education | |
| Library Catalog Title: | The Fourth R, responsibility of the states in education : an examination of the organization of state departments of education | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421R | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - The Gilmer-Aikin Committee for the Study of Education Authorization, Organization, and Plan for Citizenship Participation. | |
| Library Catalog Title: | The Gilmer-Aikin Committee for the Study of Education Authorization, Organization, and Plan for Citizenship Participation. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421B | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - The Gilmer-Aikin mystery : whose business is it anyhow? | |
| Library Catalog Title: | The Gilmer-Aikin mystery : whose business is it anyhow? | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421G | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - To have what we must | |
| Library Catalog Title: | To have what we must-- : a digest of proposals to improve public education in Texas | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421T | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Online version: | View document [46 pages] | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report - What can statewide citizenship organizations do? | |
| Library Catalog Title: | What can statewide citizenship organizations do? | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 G421W | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
| Committee: | Joint Public School System of Texas (Gilmer-Aikin), Special | |
| Title: | Report- Citizenship at work : a plan for use by statewide citizenship organizations in participating in the study of education in Texas | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Citizenship at work : a plan for use by statewide citizenship organizations in participating in the study of education in Texas / by the Gilmer-Aikin Committee for the Study of Education in Texas. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.50 B421C | |
| Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
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