Talk:Act 60 (Vermont law)/Sandbox

Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education%20RFP%20Page/Bibliography_of_Reports_Comments_Act60_Act68.pdf


 * Tax Policy and Economic Development Implications of School Finance Policies in Vermont, Submitted to the: Coalition of Vermont Associations, Prepared by: Policy Economics Group, KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, Washington, D.C. December 8, 1994. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_KPMG_Peat_Marwick_LLP_1994.pdf
 * A Field Guide to Education Funding Reform, by Jack Hoffman, A publication of the Rutland Herald and The Times Argus. 1997. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Field_Guide.pdf
 * New England Fiscal Facts, Do New England’s Public Schools Need Finance Reform? Part 1, By Daniel G. Swaine, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, No. 20. Fall/Winter 1998. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/neff/neff20.pdf
 * Legislative Oversight Committee on Restructuring Education, Legislative Council. December 1, 1998. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Legislative_Oversight_Committee_1998.pdf
 * New England Fiscal Facts, Can Guaranteed Tax Base Formulas Achieve Either Wealth Neutrality or Spending Equality? Part 2, By Daniel G. Swaine, with Lynn E. Browne, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, (No. 21. Spring/Summer) 1999. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/neff/neff21.pdf
 * New England Fiscal Facts, Are Foundation Grant Programs a Panacea or a Problem? Part 3, by Daniel G. Swaine, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, (No. 22. Fall) 1999. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/neff/neff22.pdf
 * Act 60 Task Force Report to Governor Howard Dean, M.D., Chair: Sean Campbell, Tax Commissioner. February 11, 1999. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Act60_Task_Force_1999.pdf
 * Annual Report of the Legislative Oversight Committee on Restructuring Education, Legislative Council. December 1999.
 * New England Fiscal Facts, Will Accountability Standards Improve Public School? Accountability and Education Reform, by Daniel G. Swaine, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, (No. 23. Winter) 1999/2000. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/neff/neff23.pdf
 * Civil Society and School Reform: Vermont’s Act 60, William J. Mathis. (estimated published date, 1999-2000). Vermont, William J. Mathis, Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, University of Vermont. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Mathis_no_date.pdf
 * Vermont’s Act 60 Becomes Act 68: A Win-Win Compromise, William J. Mathis, Rural School and Community Trust, Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, University of Vermont. (estimated published date, 1999-2000). http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Mathis_A_Win_Win_Compromise.pdf
 * Vermont’s Act 60: Early Effects of Comprehensive School Finance Reform, William J. Mathis, April 2000. http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED452580.pdf
 * Rapid Response, Radical Reform: The Story of School Finance Litigation in Vermont, by Michael A. Rebell and Jeffrey Metzler of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc., Studies in Judicial Remedies and Public Engagement, (Volume 2, Number 3). October 2000. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/jle31&div=21& id=&page=
 * The Impact of Vermont’s Act 60: Year Three Report, (1999-2000), Report for the Northeast and Islands Regional LAB at Brown University By Lorna Jimerson and Carolyn Clinton. January 2001. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Jimerson_2001.pdf
 * A Reasonably Equal Share: Educational Equity in Vermont, A Status Report—Year 2000-2001, By Lorna Jimerson, Program Coordinator, Rural School and Community Trust. February 2001. http://www.ruraledu.org/user_uploads/file/A_Reasonably_Equal.pdf
 * Vermont’s Act 60: Comprehensive School Finance Reform – Effects in the First Year of Full Implementation, William J. Mathis, PH. D., University of Vermont, Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, and Brenda L. Fleming, Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, Brandon, Vermont, State of the State American Educational Finance Association’s Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio. March 2001, 3/15/01 vers. http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED452580.pdf
 * The Equal Educational Opportunity Act: Measuring Equity, State Board of Education, Vermont Department of Education. April 17, 2001. http://education.vermont.gov/new/pdfdoc/pubs/eeo_report_01.pdf
 * School Children First, Replacing Act 60 with a new system based on parental choice in an education marketplace, An Ethan Allen Institute Report. July 2001. http://www.ethanallen.org/schoolchildren/schoolchildren_exec.pdf
 * School Finance Changes in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, Occasional Paper No. 39, by Pushpam Jain, Assistant Research Professor, Center for Research and Evaluation, A publication of the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Main and the Penquis Superintendents’ Association October 2001. http://libraries.maine.edu/cre/39/no39.pdf
 * Evaluation of Act 60, Vermont’s Education Financing Law Update: October 2001, Prepared for the Vermont Coalition of Municipalities, by Richard Heaps and Arthur Woolf, Northern Economic Consulting, Inc. October 31, 2001.
 * Still ―A Reasonably Equal Share,‖ Update on Educational Equity in Vermont: Year 2001-2002, A Report by the Rural School and Community Trust, Lorna Jimerson, February 2002. http://www.ruraledu.org/user_uploads/file/A_Reasonably_Equal_Share.pdf
 * Funding School Districts and the Effect of Act 60, Bill Talbott, Vermont Department of Education. February 19, 2002. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Talbott_2002.pdf
 * A Review of Vermont Education Expenditures from FY96 to FY01, By Stacey Young, Education Finance Manager, Vaughn Altemus, Education Finance Manager, Bill Talbott, Chief Financial Officer, Vermont Department of Education. April 30, 2002. http://education.vermont.gov/new/pdfdoc/pubs/expenditures_96_01.pdf
 * School Finance Reform and School Quality: Lessons from Vermont, by Thomas Downes, Department of Economics, Tufts University and Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. March 2002. republished October 2002. http://ase.tufts.edu/econ/papers/200309.pdf
 * Vermont Education Finance Study, by Steve Smith, Senior Policy Specialist, National Council of State Legislators, January 2004. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_NCSL_2004.pdf
 * Reforming Reforms: Incentive Effects in Education Finance in Vermont, Stephen J. Schmidt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, Karen Scott, Union College, Rensselaer Working Papers in Economics, Number 0425. December 2004. http://www.economics.rpi.edu/workingpapers/rpi0425.pdf
 * A Citizen’s Guide to School Funding, Vermont’s Act 68, by the Vermont Children’s Forum with the Public Assets Institute (Paul A. Cillo, Author). February 2006. http://www.voicesforvtkids.org/publications/a-citizens-guide-to-school-funding-vermonts-act-68/
 * Overview of Vermont’s Education Funding System Under Act 68 & Act 130, Vermont Department of Education. December 2006. http://education.vermont.gov/new/pdfdoc/laws/act68/act68_overview.pdf
 * Discussion Paper, School finance in Vermont: Balancing equal education and fair tax burdens, by Darcy Rollins Saas, New England Public Policy Center Discussion Paper 07-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. January 2007. http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/neppc/dp/2007/neppcdp0701.pdf
 * Alternative Revenue Generation in Vermont Public Schools: Raising funds outside the tax base to support public education, by Thomas Downes, Department of Conomics, Tufts University, and Jason Steinman, Division of Monetary Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. March 2007. http://cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/efap/Jerry_Miner/Downes.pdf
 * Closing the Gap: Act 60’s Impact on Education Expenditure and Student Achievement in Vermont, Jennifer Henderson, Middlebury College, Economics Honors Thesis. January 30, 2008. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Henderson_2008.pdf
 * 2008 Report on Act 60 of 1997: An Act Relating to Equal Educational Opportunity: Measuring Equity, Report to the House and Senate Committees on Education, Submitted by: Vermont Department of http://education.vermont.gov/new/pdfdoc/laws/act_60/act_60_eeo_report_08.pdf
 * School-Budget Voters Are Minding Their Own Purse Strings, Acts 60 and 68 Encourage Moderation, by Deb Brighton and Jack Hoffman, Public Assets Institute, government for the people, (Report 0801). February 2008. http://publicassets.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/pai-rpt0801.pdf
 * The University of Vermont, Vermont Legislative Research Shop, Jamie Parot, Ryan McCormick, and Kevin Channell, Undergraduate Students, University of Vermont under the supervision of Professor Anthony Gierzynski. April 28, 2008. http://www.uvm.edu/~vlrs/Education/educationfundingsources.pdf
 * Election 2008, Education Funding and Property Taxes, Vermont League of Cities & Towns, Issue Paper No. 2. September 2008. http://www.vlct.org/d/advocacy/issue_papers/2008_2_ed_funding.pdf
 * Better Value, Fewer Taxpayer Dollars, The report of the Commission on Rebalancing Education Cost and Value, An Ethan Allen Institute Report, Chris Robbins, Chairman. December 2009. http://www.ethanallen.org/pdf/educationreport_2009.pdf
 * Vermont’s Education Funding System, Vermont Department of Education, Finance & Administration, April 2009. http://www.education.vermont.gov/new/pdfdoc/laws/act68/educ_edfund_overview_0409.pdf
 * Report of the Committee on the Financing and Effectiveness of the Vermont Education System in the 21st Century, Department of Education and Legislative Council, January 2010. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/Education RFP Page/Studies/Ed_Study_Committee_Fin_Effect_2010.pdf
 * Election 2010, Education Funding and Property Taxes, Vermont League of Cities & Towns, Issue Paper No. 2. September 2010. http://www.vlct.org/d/advocacy/issue_papers/2010_2_ed_funding.pdf
 * 2011 Report on Act 3 Section 56, An Act Relating to Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Adjustment, Report/Recommendations to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, Submitted by: Vermont Department of Education, School of Finance Division. April 6, 2011. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/reports/2011ExternalReports/268662.pdf