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Committee:	Senate Education
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report to the 80th Legislature
Subjects:	College preparedness | Disciplinary alternative education programs | Education, Texas State Board of | Educational accountability | Permanent School Fund | School choice | School discipline | Teacher incentive plans | Teacher salaries | Zero tolerance policies |
Library Call Number:	L1836.79 Ed83
Session:	79th R.S. (2005)
Online version:	View report [40 pages  File size: 4,633 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review and make recommendations on any improvements necessary for the state's accountability system, especially as it relates to closing and measuring achievement gaps. The committee should study the feasibility of establishing statutory minimum or baseline performance standards for state education policies. Such a review should include a thorough study of the current assessment structure and make any recommendations about moving to other formats such as end of course testing. The committee shall also make recommendations on how to incorporate alternative delivery methods when assessing student performance.
2.	Study and make recommendations on educational reforms necessary to focus high schools and student performance on post-secondary readiness and success.
3.	Review the operation of the State Board of Education, including its oversight of the Permanent School Fund, and make recommendations, if necessary, for appropriate legislative oversight and review.
4.	Study the impact of pay-for-performance and differentiated pay scales on teacher recruitment and retention. Examine alternative approaches to improving teacher retention. Study value-added assessment/individual student growth measures as a factor in determining compensation for teacher effectiveness. Examine programs in other states that expand the range of teacher salaries and provide incentives for effective teachers to remain in the classroom. Make recommendations for changing teacher salary structures.
5.	Review and make recommendations, if necessary, that streamline and clarify Chapter 37 of the Education Code dealing with student discipline. Include a study of state accountability measures for disciplinary alternative education programs to evaluate academic performance and effectiveness in modifying behavior. Include a study of the effects of zero tolerance practices and other changes made by the 79th Legislature. Include a review of after school prevention programs.
6.	Evaluate the impact of successful school choice programs on students, parents, and teachers
Committee:	House General Investigating
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on General Investigating, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	County development districts | Crime laboratories | Education, Texas State Board of | Minority contractors | Minority-owned/women-owned businesses | Municipal utility districts | Permanent School Fund | Public Safety, Texas Department of | Special taxing districts |
Library Call Number:	L1836.77 g286
Session:	77th R.S. (2001)
Online version:	View report [34 pages  File size: 265 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review the state's laws and procedures for the creation of special purpose districts whose jurisdiction is limited to a specific geographic area or areas and whose powers may include the imposition of taxes, the creation of public debt, the exercise of eminent domain, or the exercise of police power. Consider the proliferation of special purpose districts, and investigate whether the activities of these districts comport with the legislative intentions and public purposes for which they were created.
2.	Examine policies and procedures governing the Texas Department of Public Safety's crime lab to insure high standards for the testing of evidence for law enforcement agencies throughout the state.
3.	Monitor procedures and activities of the State Board of Education in its management of the Permanent School Fund.
4.	Review the compliance of state agencies with state law related to Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Participation.
Committee:	House General Investigating
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on General Investigating, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2000 : a report to the House of Representatives, 77th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Dentists | Education, Texas State Board of | General Services Commission, Texas | Homeland security | Investment managers | Medicaid | Medicaid fraud | Permanent School Fund | Persons with disabilities | Public Safety, Texas Department of | Risk Management, State Office of | State buildings | State employees | State government contracts | State Preservation Board | Stock investments | Texas Council on Purchasing from People with Disabilities | Texas Health Steps Program | Texas State Capitol |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 g286
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [85 pages  File size: 495 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigate allegations of excessive use of crowns and other aggressive dental procedures by certain providers in the Medicaid program.
2.	Investigate recent actions of the State Board of Education relating to its management of the Permanent School Fund.
3.	Review the security resources available to protect state employees and state buildings.
4.	Review the program and processes by which disabled workers are afforded priority in certain state procurements, including the roles of the General Services Commission, the Council for Purchasing from People with Disabilities, and the Texas Industries for the Blind and Handicapped.
Committee:	House Redistricting
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Senate Committee on Redistricting and the House Committee on Redistricting.
Subjects:	Census 2000 | Census Bureau, U.S. | Congressional redistricting | Education, Texas State Board of | Redistricting | Texas Legislative Council | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 r248
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [125 pages  File size: 7,269 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Gather information regarding the existence and location of communities of interest to be considered in the creation of legislative, congressional and state board of education districts.
2.	Monitor related federal developments, including those affecting the conduct of the 2000 federal census and enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
3.	Coordinate with the Texas Legislative Council the development of software applications and support services relating to redistricting for the 77th Legislature.
4.	Conduct public hearings in appropriate locations to obtain public input on all issues relating to the redistricting of legislative, congressional, and State Board of Education districts following the release of the federal census in 2001.
Committee:	House Public Education
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Public Education, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Charter schools | Education Agency, Texas | Education Service Centers | Education, Texas State Board of | School budgets | School buses | School safety | Special education | State Board for Educator Certification |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 ed83h
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [45 pages  File size: 2,035 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Examine legislative strategies to improve efficiency of public schools. Include use of technology, alternative methods of delivering educational services, financial incentives, reduced administrative costs, any other measure.
2.	Review progress of charter schools and public education grants, including revisions enacted by the 75th legislature.
3.	Investigate accidents and other safety issues arising in situations where school districts have contracted with external entities to provide transportation services.
4.	Monitor progress and implementation of other legislation, including SB 133, 75th R.S., relating to safe schools (jointly with the House Committee on Juvenile Justice and Family Issues), SB 1158, 75th R.S., relating to education service centers, and HB 1800, 75th R.S., relating to inclusion of more special education students in the accountability system.
5.	Conduct active oversight of agencies under committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:	House State Investment Policy, House Joint
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Texas House of Representatives, Joint Committee on State Investment Policy interim report, 1996.
Subjects:	Education, Texas State Board of | Permanent University Fund | Public Funds Investment Act | State agencies | Stock investments |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 in8
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [21 pages  File size: 577 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	The House Joint Committee on State Investment Policy is created to review the investment policies of state agencies and institutions of higher education. The Review should include recent changes implemented by the State Board of Education for investments of the Permanent School Find.
Committee:	Joint Review of the Central Education Agency, Select
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Final report of the Joint Select Committee to Review the Central Education Agency.
Subjects:	Alternative schools | At-risk youth | Charter schools | Education | Education Agency, Texas | Education reform | Education Service Centers | Education, Texas State Board of | Educational accountability | Elementary education | School choice | School discipline | School safety | Secondary education | Special education |
Library Call Number:	L1836.73 ed83s
Session:	73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version:	View report [69 pages  File size: 2,694 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	The committee shall conduct an in-depth and comprehensive review of the mission, organization, size, and effectiveness of the Central Education Agency. In conducting its review, the committee shall study the mission, organizational structure, and practices of similar agencies in other states. The review must include:
2.	a study of the agency's success in addressing the national education goals, adopted by the President of the United States and the nation's 50 governors and the goals for public education provided by Section 35.001
3.	a study of the agency's organizational mission, structure, size, and effectiveness
4.	a study of the number and effectiveness of committees created under the auspices of the agency or the State Board of Education
5.	identification of those functions that should be performed by the state and those that should be performed regionally through the regional service centers
6.	a study of the adequacy, validity, and timeliness of data collected and published by the Public Education Information Managements System (PEIMS) as provided by Section 16.007, Education Code
7.	a study of the adequacy and effectiveness of programs designed for special populations of students and for teacher and administrator staff development
8.	a study of the adequacy and effectiveness of assistance provided the site-based management teams, established under Section 21.931, Education Code
9.	a study of the efficient use of state resources, school district structure, and opportunities for shared costs in order to determine the best management and use of state resources and to assist school districts in determining optimal educational opportunities.
Committee:	House Public Education
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 67th Legislature : report of the Committee on Public Education, Texas House of Representatives, 66th Legislature.
Subjects:	Career and technical education | Education Agency, Texas | Education Service Centers | Education, Texas State Board of | Job training programs | Teacher quality | Teacher salaries |
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 ed83p
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View report [71 pages  File size: 2,424 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review present funding and program needs of career education in Texas.
2.	Oversight functions shall be conducted for all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes during the 66th Regular Session of the Legislature. The agencies include: State Board of Education Central Education Agency Schools for the Blind and Deaf Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education
3.	Outline the statutorily defined role and scope of regional service centers in Texas and recommend revisions in law and in administration to properly focus the purposes of the centers.
4.	Determine the feasibility, both administratively and financially, of incentive pay provisions for teachers.
Committee:	House State Departments, Investigate
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of Committee to Investigate Certain State Departments.
Subjects:	Board of Control, Texas | Business taxes | Courts | Education, Texas State Board of | Executive clemency | Ferguson, James E. 'Pa' | Ferguson, Miriam A. 'Ma' | Government ethics | Governors | Gubernatorial pardons | Highway construction | Highway Department, Texas State | Motor fuels taxes | Pardons and Paroles, Texas Board of | Prisons | Railroad Commission of Texas | State purchasing | Tax administration | Textbooks | Treasury Department, Texas State |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 40th Leg., R.S., 132 (1927)
Session:	39th R.S. (1925)
Online version:	View report [28 pages  File size: 1,593 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigation into the administration of highway affairs by the State Highway Commission; to investigate the manner in which contracts have been let by said commission, and generally to investigate all and every act of said commission since said date.
2.	Investigation into the State Treasurer's Department and the Railroad Commission with the view of determining if the State is receiving the full amount due by the oil companies as taxes on gross production of oil, as provided by law.
3.	To investigate the granting of pardons, paroles, reprieves and commutation of sentence, and the facts and circumstances connected with the granting of such acts of clemency.
4.	To investigate the letting of contracts for the purpose of text-books and the facts surrounding the letting of such contracts.
5.	To investigate into the administration of public affairs by such other departments of the State government, as in the judgment of said committee may be necessary, and for the promotion of the public good.
Supporting documents
Committee:	House State Departments, Investigate
Title:	Transcript and Testimony, Proceedings of Committee Appointed by the Thirty-ninth Legislature to Investigate Certain State Departments, October 18, 1926-January 3, 1927, Supplement to House Journal for Ninth Day, January 21, 1927
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1836.39 IN8
Session:	39th R.S. (1925)
Online version:	View document [886 pages  File size: 433,830 kb]

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