Close Up Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, April 2011 (open access)

Close Up Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, April 2011

Newsletter of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement describing news, events, and education of the Commission, as well as updates about changes to laws or other information of interest to readers.
Date: April 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Education Today, Volume 25, Number 4, April 2012 (open access)

Texas Education Today, Volume 25, Number 4, April 2012

Periodic newsletter issued by the Texas Education Agency providing updates about Texas State Board of Education meetings as well as agency news, announcements, and other information related to education.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Education Agency
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Education Today, Volume 28, Number 4, April 2014 (open access)

Texas Education Today, Volume 28, Number 4, April 2014

Periodic newsletter issued by the Texas Education Agency providing updates about Texas State Board of Education meetings as well as agency news, announcements, and other information related to education.
Date: April 2014
Creator: Texas Education Agency
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hispanic Texans: Journey from Empire to Democracy (open access)

Hispanic Texans: Journey from Empire to Democracy

Booklet listing sites related to the history of the Hispanic community in Texas along with educational information about the context, such as chronologies and overviews of the topic. Each site has a brief description with location and contact information.
Date: April 2015
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Education Today, Volume 30, Number 4, April 2015 (open access)

Texas Education Today, Volume 30, Number 4, April 2015

Periodic newsletter issued by the Texas Education Agency providing updates about Texas State Board of Education meetings as well as agency news, announcements, and other information related to education.
Date: April 2015
Creator: Texas Education Agency
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Education Today, Volume 31, Number 4, April 2016 (open access)

Texas Education Today, Volume 31, Number 4, April 2016

Periodic newsletter issued by the Texas Education Agency providing updates about Texas State Board of Education meetings as well as agency news, announcements, and other information related to education.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Texas Education Agency
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
OASIS Matters, April 2017 (open access)

OASIS Matters, April 2017

Periodic newsletter from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission "help desk" regarding the OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) program used to collect data related to Medicare and Medicaid. It includes information about news and updates, suggestions for using the OASIS system, and related topics of interest to users.
Date: April 2017
Creator: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clarify cost-recovery requirements and agency fees to improve transparency and efficiency (open access)

Clarify cost-recovery requirements and agency fees to improve transparency and efficiency

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to transparency for certain programs or services financed by user fees rather than with general tax revenue.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clarify oversight of regionalization at the Texas juvenile justice department (open access)

Clarify oversight of regionalization at the Texas juvenile justice department

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to efforts to reform the state’s juvenile justice system by establishing a regionalization model.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times (open access)

Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to reducing overall waiting times when customers call Texas state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies (open access)

Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to "Hurricane Harvey's fiscal impact on state agencies" (p. 1)
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan (open access)

Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to plans for coastal protection and programs to increase resiliency.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funding trends and challenges in community mental health services (open access)

Funding trends and challenges in community mental health services

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the expiration of federal funding for mental health services and various ways to meet needs of Texas residents.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation (open access)

Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the inability 13 crime laboratories administered by the Department of Public Safety to keep up with demand by the many law enforcement agencies that rely on them.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve access to accountability and technical information for the virtual school network online schools program (open access)

Improve access to accountability and technical information for the virtual school network online schools program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the inaccessibility of information about enrollment and other data for virtual/online schools in Texas compared to in-person schools.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve alignment of skills development fund grants with workforce training goals (open access)

Improve alignment of skills development fund grants with workforce training goals

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various state-funded workforce training programs including their administration and evaluation metrics.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve major consulting contract reporting requirements and processes (open access)

Improve major consulting contract reporting requirements and processes

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the lack of consistency in reporting requirements for state agencies and institutions of higher education.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve operation of the star kids program (open access)

Improve operation of the star kids program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improving the management and evaluation of the "STAR Kids" program, intended to coordinate Medicaid care for children with disabilities.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve oversight of mental health targeted case management and rehabilitative services in the Texas Medicaid program (open access)

Improve oversight of mental health targeted case management and rehabilitative services in the Texas Medicaid program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to targeted Medicaid services including oversight and regular feedback.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve oversight of the Texas county judge salary supplement (open access)

Improve oversight of the Texas county judge salary supplement

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to auditing or providing more oversight for salary supplements provided to county judges for specific kinds of work.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve reporting for costs related to online higher education (open access)

Improve reporting for costs related to online higher education

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various options for reducing the financial burden for students in higher education institutions.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state and public groundwater quality information (open access)

Improve state and public groundwater quality information

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improve testing and overall quality of groundwater, particularly in private wells.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state debt collection practices (open access)

Improve state debt collection practices

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to reporting and oversight practices for collecting delinquent debts to make practices more consistent.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state management of financial programs for local law enforcement agencies (open access)

Improve state management of financial programs for local law enforcement agencies

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various local policing and law enforcement programs using state monies from General Revenue Funds and General Revenue–Dedicated Funds, including the management processes used by the administering agencies and methods of evaluation.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History