Plan Now to Attend Your Regional Grassroots Meeting

TASB Grassroots Meetings provide trustees with the opportunity to directly impact the advocacy goals of the Association and ensure that their district needs and concerns are included as the TASB Advocacy Agenda is developed. Registration for the 2012 TASB Grassroots Meetings is now open. Simply review the meeting schedule and click on the meeting you wish to attend.

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New Election Season Toolkit Available

TASB GR has created an elections toolkit (pdf) to help school trustees become more active during election season.

Legislative Updates Available

Legislative Summary Book for the 82nd Session (pdf)

Post-Legislative Conference presentation (pdf) 

Post-Legislative Update Video (via myTASB)

Final School District Runs

The school district runs for the negotiated school finance plan that finally passed in SB 1 (1st Called Session) are available here (pdf).

Final Education Budget Table

This table (pdf) shows the legislature's final appropriations for education-related items in the 2012-13 biennium and how they compare to the 2010-11 biennium.

Messaging Documents

Trustees may use these messaging documents to help communicate the impact proposed state budget cuts may have on school districts:

• Make Education a Priority Brief
• Education Spending Brief
• Tracking the Education Dollar
• School Finance Brief
• School District Staffing Brief
• Fund Balance Brief

Updated Mandates Documents

Updated editions of the Report on School District Mandates (pdf) and the Transparency Mandates on School Districts (pdf) are now available.

Legislative Report & Update

What you need to know about important legislative issues can be found in this newsletter. Daily updates are also available here. Sign up for updates delivered to your in-box.

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Issue Briefs

• School Finance: Where are we now? (pdf)
• FAQs about 82nd Session, School Finance (pdf)
• Accountability Ratings: The "TPM Effect" (pdf)
• Election Law Changes (pdf)
• Bullying in Texas Public Schools (pdf)
• Changing How Schools Address Bullying (pdf)
• FAQs about Legislative Advocacy (pdf)
• Proration  (pdf)
• Background on Texas Charter Schools  (pdf)
• Charter School Statistics  (pdf)
• School Start Date  (pdf)
• Grading Policies  (pdf)
• School Finance - Weights and Allotments  (pdf)
• Fund Balances: At a Glance  (pdf)
• Additional Issue Briefs

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