2012 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Guide: For Texas Public School Districts and Campuses (open access)

2012 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Guide: For Texas Public School Districts and Campuses

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) analyzing the test results, graduation rates, and other evaluation measures for performance of school districts in the state of Texas.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Performance Reporting. Department of Assessment and Accountability.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adopt-A-Prairie Chicken Newsletter, Summer 2012 (open access)

Adopt-A-Prairie Chicken Newsletter, Summer 2012

Newsletter regarding population control and conservation efforts of the Attwater's Prairie Chicken.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adult and Juvenile Correctional Population Projection, Fiscal Years 2012-2017 (open access)

Adult and Juvenile Correctional Population Projection, Fiscal Years 2012-2017

"This report is provided to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice so they may incorporate the relevant information into their Legislative Appropriations Requests for the 2014-15 biennium" (June 2012).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Angler Recognition Program (open access)

Angler Recognition Program

This packet has a breakdown of awards given based on fishes caught and also records for fish weight and length. An award application form as well as general rules for fish captured documentation and rules for all award categories are also included.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Selected Financial Controls at the State Office of Administrative Hearings (open access)

An Audit Report on Selected Financial Controls at the State Office of Administrative Hearings

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) has processes and related controls to help ensure that budgets are prepared using a reasonable methodology and appropriate data, financial data is secure, and the Hearing Activity Report is accurate and complete.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Selected Financial Processes and Related Internal Controls at the Commission on State Emergency Communications (open access)

An Audit Report on Selected Financial Processes and Related Internal Controls at the Commission on State Emergency Communications

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether selected financial processes and related internal controls at the Commission on State Emergency Communications are designed and operating to help ensure accurate and complete financial information and accountability for appropriated funds.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report Related to the National Research University Fund (open access)

An Audit Report Related to the National Research University Fund

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to auditing all or a representative sample of restricted research funds awarded to eligible higher education institutions and the higher education institutions' expenditures of those funds.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Begin with the End in Mind: A Records Management and Archive Manual for Texas Legislators (open access)

Begin with the End in Mind: A Records Management and Archive Manual for Texas Legislators

This manual is a records management and archives manual for Texas legislators.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Big Time Texas Hunts (open access)

Big Time Texas Hunts

Descriptions of game hunting events hosted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boating & Seagrass (open access)

Boating & Seagrass

This pamphlet describes brief guidelines on how to properly avoid seagrass bed destruction with boat propellers. Seagrass types and purposes are described in brief. Pictures on proper lift, drift, pole, or troll techniques are included as well as pictures of each identified seagrass type.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breastfeeding: The Law (open access)

Breastfeeding: The Law

This pamphlet provides information on breastfeeding Texas Health and Safety Code and the Fair Labor Standards Act regarding breastfeeding.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Breastmilk Counts
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017 (open access)

Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017

Agency strategic plan for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date: June 22, 2012
Creator: Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan (open access)

Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan

This document provides management strategies, risk developments, and protecting big game resources from chronic wasting disease in captive or free ranging cervid populations.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $514 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $514 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $514 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: June 6, 2012
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conference on Performance Measures for Transportation and Livable Communities: Summary of Work Performed (open access)

Conference on Performance Measures for Transportation and Livable Communities: Summary of Work Performed

"This report summarizes the work performed and results achieved in planning and implementing this conference. The aim of this project was to plan and conduct a workshop or conference on transportation and livability performance measures, involving researchers and transportation practitioners from different agencies in the U.S."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Ramani, Tara L. & Turnbull, Katherine F.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 06-12, June 2012 (open access)

Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 06-12, June 2012

Newsletter of the Texas Credit Union Department containing departmental news and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to credit unions.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Credit Union Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 1 (open access)

Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 1

First part of a report evaluating the environmental impacts of adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) prepared by the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP) that would permit incidental take of endangered species during other lawful activities, while attempting to minimize or mitigate expected impacts. This volume contains the executive summary and chapters describing the purpose and need for the action, alternatives, the affected environment, environmental consequences, and coordination and consultation as well as a list of preparers, references, and associated tables and appendices.
Date: June 2012
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 2 (open access)

Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 2

Second part of a report evaluating the environmental impacts of adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) prepared by the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP) that would permit incidental take of endangered species during other lawful activities, while attempting to minimize or mitigate expected impacts. This volume contains agreements and supplementary information related to the report proposals.
Date: June 2012
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 3 (open access)

Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 3

Final part of a report evaluating the environmental impacts of adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) prepared by the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP) that would permit incidental take of endangered species during other lawful activities, while attempting to minimize or mitigate expected impacts. This volume contains memorandum of agreement for Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program with signature pages, as well as associated research reports referenced by the study.
Date: June 2012
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 84, Number 5, June 2012 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 84, Number 5, June 2012

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Establish Effective Lower Bounds of Watershed Slope for Traditional Hydrologic Methods (open access)

Establish Effective Lower Bounds of Watershed Slope for Traditional Hydrologic Methods

This report identifies, from literature, data, modeling, and physical experiments, the dimensionless topographic slope where "low-slope" behavior should be assumed.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Cleveland, Theodore G.; Thompson, David B.; Fang, Xing & Li, Ming-Han
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Focus Report, Volume 82, Number 9, June 12, 2012 (open access)

Focus Report, Volume 82, Number 9, June 12, 2012

"This report explains the three-tier system of alcohol distribution in Texas and reviews proposals to allow small producers of specialty beer and distilled spirits to operate under exceptions to the system."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Follow-up Audit Report on Staffing and Caseloads at the Department of Family and Protective Services (open access)

A Follow-up Audit Report on Staffing and Caseloads at the Department of Family and Protective Services

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining the implementation status of prior State Auditor's Office recommendations regarding staffing and caseloads for the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Follow-up Audit Report on the Alcoholic Beverage Commission's Excise Tax Collection Process (open access)

A Follow-up Audit Report on the Alcoholic Beverage Commission's Excise Tax Collection Process

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining the implementation status of prior State Auditor's Office recommendations to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission (Commission) related to excise tax collection processes and information resources.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History