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In the late 1830s, Republic of Texas President Mirabeau Lamar made some of the first overtures towards establishing an endowment of land to be set aside for a public system of schools and a public university.
3 sie 2017 · The appropriated public domain is composed of all lands set apart for the public schools, the University of Texas System, and the eleemosynary institutions. Texas appropriated to these institutions 51,921,519 acres, an area equal to about 30 percent of the total area of the state.
Texas school districts, Education Service Centers, and State Board of Education member districts maps are posted on this page in PDF format. Education Service Center (ESC) This map represents the 20 Education Service Centers (ESC).
7 sie 2020 · Both the republic and the state of Texas set aside land from the public domain for the support of the public schools, the University of Texas and its branches, and the state eleemosynary institutions. More of the public domain was granted to the schools than to any other institution.
On April 19, 1901 the Texas Legislature passed HB 71 (Acts 1901, 27th R.S.,ch. 125, General Laws of Texas) allowing for the sale and lease of public school and asylum lands. The Register recorded the applications made to purchase land only.
Benefitting public education for 179 years and counting. The Permanent School Fund (PSF) was created by the Texas Constitution in 1845 as a perpetual fund to support Texas public schools, and in 1854 the Texas Legislature seeded the fund with $2 million.
31 sie 2023 · Since 1969, Texas PSF has distributed almost $39 billion dollars to Texas public schools. Second, through the Bond Guarantee Program, independent school districts and charter districts benefit from the Fund’s AAA credit rating through lower interest rates on their debt, allowing more money to go toward school improvements, and saving Texas ...
