65% Library

• Task Force
  • Task Forces both Citizens and Educators plus information
• Origin of 65%
  • Where Did The 65% Rule Come From? This comment on the "Eye on Williamson County" summarizes the orgin of the 65% concept from the author's perspective.  It will introduce you to some of the other sources we are listing.
  • e-Texas Recommendations: Improve accountability for educational spending - This is from recommendations made by the Comptroller. Note while reading this article, the first reference is Eric Hanushek, a member of the Koret Task Force which provided the heart of the Reform Proposals of the 79th Legislature. 
  • New 10/19 e-Texas Recommendation #22
  • 65% Rule Pushed By First Class Education Organization - Group Looking to Divide Educators and Promote Vouchers - This is an article from The Austin American Statesman
  • All Children Matter - website by Richard and Betsy DeVos - Richard is a former Amway executive. - This organization provides significant financial contributions to Texas Legislators. While reading these pieces, you will note familiar catch phrases from common talking points like "meaningful reform". 
  • Outsider's Stealth Cash in elections - article by Rick Casey - Houston Chronicle
  • One Man's Way to Better Schools by George Will - Patrick Byrne: His idea -- call it the 65 Percent Solution -- is politically delicious because it unites parents, taxpayers and teachers while, he hopes, sowing dissension in the ranks of the teachers' unions (which he considers the principal institutional impediment to improving primary and secondary education).
  • New 10/17 What does "in the classroom" mean 
  • New 10/25 What is the 65% Solution? - Who is behind the latest school finance scheme? Find out more about Governor Perry's proposal--and the national agenda behind it - from TSTA
    
• Other Information
  • Perry's office says 65 percent rule stands,whatever high court does
  • Republican power broker DeVos to run for governor (Michigan)
  • No New Education Dollars without Reforms
  • Highlights on the 65% Initiative to Put 65 Percent of the Education Funding in the Classroom
  • Gimmicks over quality
  • EDITORIAL: School Spending
  • Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball - Equity Center
  • New 10/17 - The following comments are from a blog by Spring Branch ISD Board Member Mike Falick.
    • More on 65% Rule
    • Brilliant Analysis of the Problems with the 65% Rule
    • Governor Perry's Executive Order: The 65% Rule
    • Whatever Happened to Local Control
    • 'No bill, no reform, no nothing'
• Websites with information
  • Texas Conservation Coalition
  • Americans For Prosperty
  • Texans for Texas
  • Texas Public Policy Foundation
  • First Class Education
• Data
  •  All Texas Schools NCES Scores - pdf file
  •  All Texas Schools NCES Scores - Excel file
  •  Codes for Instructional Cost
• Research
  • New 10/25 How can a threshold of 65% be set without first considering the level of total expenditures
  • New 10/24 TASBO -  Presentation to 65% Educator and Citizen Task Force on October 19, 2005
  • New 10/17 Standard and Poor's Kansas Resource Management Study" -
  • Analysis of Sixty-Five Percent Rule in School spending by CPPP
  • Information on the 65% Solution
  • A Cost Analysis for Texas Public Education  prepared by several Texas Organizations
  • Developments in School Finance from NCES
  • Report on School District Mandates - This is from 2002, but supports the premise that there are mandates in both the instructional and non instructional areas of school costs.
  • Koret Task Force - you can download the complete book if you desire.
  • Governor Perry Executive Order