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Title: Adjusting for Geographic Variations in Teacher Compensation: Updating the Texas Cost-of-Education Index
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Publication Year: 2005
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Abstract: In 1999, the 76th Texas Legislature directed the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin to "conduct a study of variations in known resource costs and costs of education beyond the control of a school district" and to "make recommendations to the 77th Legislature as to methods of adjusting funding under Chapter 42, Edcuation Code, to reflect variations in resource costs and costs of education." The Dana Center was directed to do this work with the assistance of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, the Texas Education Agency, and Texas A&M University. Their summary report, A Study of Uncontrollable Variations in the Costs of Texas Public Education: A summary report prepared for the 77th Texas Legislature (Alexander et al. 2000), explored multiple strategies for revising the Cost-of-Education Index (CEI) to reflect the substantial changes in Texas during the 1990s. Their follow-up Technical Supplement extended the analysis to incorporate additional information from the 1999-2000 school year. At the behest of the Joint Selection Committee on Public School Finance, this study further extends the Dana Center analysis of teacher compensation. As such, we incorporate information covering five school years-1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2001-02, and 2002-03. We also incorporate information from the 2000 Census. Our analysis demonstrates both that there is considerable need for cost of education adjustments in Texas and that there is need to update the Texas CEI.
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Authors: Taylor, Lori L.
Publisher: Texas A&M University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education
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