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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

Capital Expenditures for Public Schools (234 kb)
October 2009

Gains in Education Spending Equity—Ten Years After Fully Funding the BEP (167 kb)
August 2009

The Local Government Response to the Basic Education Program: Equity, Spending, and Local Tax Effort - (565 kb)
September 2008

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)

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
August 2012

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