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100
Available School Fund
What is created by the Texas Constitution of 1876, funded by motor fuel taxes and other revenue sources, to provide revenue to school districts based on a per capita basis. A portion also provides funding for textbooks and technology?
100
Chapter 41 District
What is a school district that has property wealth in excess of $305,000 per weighted student and is subject to recapture provisions?
100
Equity
What is in school finance, the term that refers to fair or equal disstribution of resources for schooling, taking into account student differences and school district characteristics?
100
Permanent School Fund (PSF)
What is a perpetual trust fund created by the Texas Constitution in 1876 to fund state textbook purchases and help fund public schools?
100
Roll Back Rate
What is a tax rate that would provide roughtly the same local taxes and state aid per WADA as was available the previous year, plus debt service taxes and $0.06?
200
Adjustments
What is the mechanism used to drive additional monies to school districts that have higher costs for educating students due to district characteristics?
200
Comptroller's Property Tax Division CPTD
What is the department responsible for conducting the propery value study that determines the taxable wealth of each Texas school district to be used to allocate state aid?
200
Foundation School Fund
What is a dedicated stream of revenue in the state budget used exclusively to fund public education?
200
Meaningful Discretion
What is the ability of a school board to set tax rates and provide resources to educate students at or above state requirements?
200
WADA
What is the term for how Texas weighs students with additional educational needs for funding purposes?
300
Basic allotment
What is the initial starting number that after adjustments is used to calculate foundation program costs and state aid to school districts?
300
Cost of Education Index CEI
What is the index the state uses to adjust the Basic Allotment to account for geographic or other cost differences beyond local school district control?
300
Equalized
What is the level of district wealth/WADA set by the legislature to provide approximately equal yield per student per penny of tax revenue?
300
Hold Harmless
What is a term used to describe a provision in new law that is designed to protect a school district from a loss of local revenue or state aid?
300
Target Revenue
What is the specific amount of funding guaranteed to a school district in exchange for the mandatory reduction of the district's M&O tax rate?
400
Allotments
What is the legislatively mandated apportionment of funds from the general revenue funds that goesto each school district to provide a basic level of education for the district's residents?
400
Compensatory Education
What is the allotment provided by the state to give additional financial support to school districts to teach educationally disadvantaged pupils and underachieving students?
400
Existing Debt Allotment EDA
What is a program established in 1990 by the 76th Legislature to provide assistance to school districts in making debt service payments on qualifying debt?
400
Local Fund Assignment
What is the tax rate needed by a district to fund its Tier 1 obligations?
400
Single Tier System
What is a plan created by TASB to replace the current two tiered and target revenue system for calculating districts' maintenance and operations funding?
500
Austin Yield
What is the state's equalization program for property poor school districts. It is funded to provide tax revenue equivalent to that raised by the Austin ISD on the first six pennies of tax effort that exceed the DCR?
500
Compressed M & O Tax Rate
What is a measure established by the Texas Legislature to provide property tax relief. A district's compressed tax rate (DCR) is its 2005 M&O tax rate multiplied by the state compression percentage?
500
Effective Tax Rate
What is the tax rate used in determining a district's tax effort for Foundation School Program (FSP) funding.
500
General Revenue Fund
What is the state's main funding source for most state programs?
500
Recapture
What is a provision in Chapter 41 of the Texas Education Code to redistribute revenue collected through property tax in property wealthy districts?
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