Publications -- Social

Mar 01, 1990

ST #148 – Choice in Education: Opportunities for Texas

Until now, educational reform in Texas has consisted in pouring billions of dollars of new spending into failing school systems and enacting scroes of rules and regulations governing everything from teachers' salaries to pupil-teacher ratios. There is no evidense that this approach has worked any better in Texas than it has in any other state.

Feb 01, 1990

ST #146 – Equality and Inequality in Texas School Finance

In the case of Edgewood v. Kirby, the Texas Supreme Court declared the system of educational finance in Texas unconstitutional. The issue was considerable disparity in taxable property values among Texas school districts, ranging from $20,000 per student in the poorest school district to $14,000,000 per student in the wealthiest school district in 1985-86.

Jan 17, 1990

ST #144 – Report Card on Texas Schools

This report is based on academic tests administered to more than 1,400,000 Texas school children in more than 1,000 school districts in the 1988-1988 academic school year. The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimal Skills (TEAMS) tests measure student performance in the areas of reading, writing and mathmatics for students in grades 1,3,5,7 and 9; and in the areas of mathmatics and language arts for students in grade 11.

Dec 01, 1983

ST #108 – Explaining the Economic Gender Gap

Despite the enactment of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights of 1964, the wage differentil between women and men has not decreased.