Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. Below are resources related to upcoming Interim Hearings.
May 10 Top
House Committee on Higher Education
Charge 3: College affordability and accessibility with a focus on middle-class students; tuition, financial aid, student debt
- "Lt. Governor Patrick Holds Press Conference on Escalating University Tuition Rates and Student Debt (Charts: Academic Charges vs CPI, Academic Charges vs MHI, Rising Academic Charges)," Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, April 26, 2016
- "Who's a Better Steward When it Comes to Texas College Costs? Data Show Lawmakers Hiked Tuition Faster Than Schools," Dallas Morning News (Interactive), April 4, 2016
- A Guidebook on State Budgeting for Higher Education, National Association of State Budget Officers, December 2015
- "The Role of Financial Aid in Promoting College Access and Success: Research Evidence and Proposals for Reform," 45 Journal of Student Financial Aid 7-22 (Issue 3, Article 3), November 2, 2015
- Trends in College Pricing 2015, Full Report (PDF), Tuition and Fees by State, College Board, November 2015
- Project on Student Debt: State by State Data, Student Debt and the Class of 2014, The Institute for College Access & Success, October 2015
- Higher Education: State Funding Trends and Policies on Affordability, U.S. Government Accountability Office, December 2014
- A Strategy to Ensure College Affordability for Low and Middle Income Families, Education Reform Now, January 5, 2014
- Doing Away with Debt: Using Existing Resources to Ensure College Affordability for Low and Middle-Income Families, The Education Trust, February 2013
- The Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree: Reform Measure or Red Herring?, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, September 2012
- Four Steps to Finishing First: An Agenda for Increasing College Productivity to Create a Better-Educated Society, Lumina Foundation, September 1, 2011
- College Affordability and Transparency Center, State Spending Charts, U.S. Department of Education
- Tuition and Fee Data, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform & Relief
Charge: Property tax process
Charge: Tax burden
- Senate Select Committee for Property Tax Reform & Relief, committee information, video/audio archives, documents and downloads, presentations
- Interim Hearings - Week of March 21, 2016, Senate Select Committee Property Tax Reform & Relief, Legislative Reference Library, March 14, 2016
May 11 Top
House Committee on General Investigating & Ethics
Charge 2: Contracting practices at major state agencies
- State of Texas Contract Management Guide, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Updated March 1, 2016
- "Contract Reform Legislation Headed to Abbott," Texas Tribune, June 1, 2015
- 83rd Texas Legislature Interim Report (Charge 2 - State Contracting), Senate Committee on Government Organization, December 2014
- State Agency Contract Management Procedures, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Senate Bill 20: Centralized State Purchasing Study, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Contracts Database and Reporting Information, Legislative Budget Board
- Tribpedia: State Contracts and Contract High (Series on state contracting problems and how the Legislature addressed the issue in 2015), Texas Tribune
House Committee on Public Education
Charge: Teacher-student relationships
- State Information Request: Teacher-Student Relationships (Recent state policy responses to misconduct, digital solutions), Education Commission of the States, February 29, 2016
- "Districts Withhold Data from State in 15 Teacher Misconduct Cases," Austin American-Statesman, December 14, 2015
- Federal Agencies Can Better Support State Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Abuse by School Personnel, U.S. Government Accountability Office, January 2014
Charge: Broadband services for schools, libraries, and institutions of higher education
- Connecting Anchor Institutions: A Broadband Action Plan, Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, Grow2Gig, Benton Foundation, April 2016
- "The Digital Divide in Texas Public Schools" (Blog), Texas AFT, March 14, 2016
- "Bridging a Digital Divide That Leaves Schoolchildren Behind," New York Times, February 22, 2016
- Public School Network Capabilities Study, Texas Education Agency, December 1, 2015
- "Major Effort Underway to Eliminate RGV’s Digital Divide," Rio Grande Guardian, November 19, 2015
- The 2015 State of the States: A Report on the State of Connectivity in America's K-12 Public Schools, EducationSuperHighway, 2015
- Broadband and Education - Connecting Students in Texas, Connected Texas, September 2014
- Report to the 83rd Legislature (Charge 3 - Barriers to virtual schools), January 2013 and Committee Handouts/Written Testimony, October 8, 2012, Senate Committee on Education
- Broadband Landscape (maps), Connected Texas
House Committee on Public Education
Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring (invited testimony only)
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