TACIR Publications on Fiscal Capacity and Funding Equity
FAST FACTS
Three
Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect Local
Funding Requirements for Education. Volume 4, Issue 1 Update
of Fast Fact Vol. 2, Issue 2 (153 kb)
January 2005
TACIR's
Fiscal Capacity Model: Equalizing Funding for Education Volume
3, Issue 1 (82 kb)
May 2004
Three
Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect Local
Funding Requirements for Education Volume 2, Issue 2 (333 kb)
October 2003
TACIR's
Fiscal Capacity Model Helps Determine Funding for Education. Volume
2, Issue 1 (803 kb)
June 2003
TACIR REPORTS
Fiscal
Capacity and Fiscal Equity (203 kb)
August 2008
Searching
for a Fiscal Capacity Model: Why No Other State is Comparable to
Tennessee (264 kb)
September 2006
Equalizing
Education Funding: The Average Tax Rate Approach (316 kb)
August 2006
A
Prototype Model for School-System-Level Fiscal Capacity in Tennessee:
Why & How (883 kb)
October 2005
A
Users' Guide to Fiscal Capacity in the Basic Education Program (1125 kb)
November 2004
Gains
in Education Spending Equity Continue Four Years After Fully Funding
the Basic Education Program (142)
September 2003
RAND
Reports - Money Matters in Education: Depending on How It's Spent (242 kb)
May 2001
Gains
in Education Finance Equity: How has the BEP Changed Things? (140 kb)
October 2000
Other TACIR Publications on K-12 Education
FAST FACTS
Minimizing
Risk Factors Key to Kindergarten Success. Volume 1, Issue 1 (280 kb)
March 2002
TACIR REPORTS
Do
K-12 School Facilities Affect Education Outcomes? (480 kb)
January 2003
Why
pre-k? A Legislative Staff Briefing Paper by the Office of
Education Accountability Comptroller of the Treasury, and TACIR (149 kb)
March 2001
Teacher
Mobility Among Tennessee's School Districts: A Survey of Causes (74 kb)
February 2000
Classroom
Teacher Salary Disparity Among Tennessee's School Systems (74 kb)
April 1999
TACIR Presentations on Fiscal Capacity
Presentation to BEPRC (November 2006)
- A Primer on the Prototype Developed by Staff Working Group (370 KB)
- Measuring Disparity: The COV (21 KB)
- Comparison of County-area Shares of BEP Match to Actual Shares of Local Education Revenue (65 KB)
- One-year Change in State Funding with Prototype Model (19 KB)
- Prototype System-level Fiscal Capacity Data and Results for FY 2006-07 (24 KB)
System-level
Fiscal Capacity for Funding Education in Tennessee - Workshop for
New BEPRC Members(655 kb)
September 2005
Addendum
(Excel File 132 KB) (PDF
File 66 kb)
September 2005
Presentation
to BEPRC (633 kb)
July 2005
System-level
Fiscal Capacity for Funding Education in Tennessee - Workshop for
State Agency Staff
February 2005
Prototype
System-Level Fiscal Capacity Model
September 2004
Local
Fiscal Capacity for Funding Education in Tennessee, 2005 (756 kb)
April 2004
Equalizing
Teachers' Salaries
October 2002
Downloadable TACIR Resources on Fiscal Capacity
Fiscal
Capacity Indicators
May 2007
Other Resources on State Funding for Public Schools
Tennessee State Board of Education—The Basic Education Program (BEP)
BEP
Review Committee 2006 Annual Report
November 2006
BEP
Review Committee 2005 Annual Report
November 2005
BEP
Review Committee 2004 Annual Report
November 2004
Tennessee Department of Education, LEA Support Services
Office of Education Accountability, Comptroller of the Treasury
The
Education Improvement Act
a progress report
May 2004
Funding
Public Schools: Is the BEP Adequate?
June 2003
School
Capital Funding: Tennessee in a National Context
August 2002
School
Capital Funding: Supplementary State Profiles
August 2002
