Performance Report for 1986

Letter, pledge card, and report on contributions and pledges for the drive to raise a $3.5 million endowment to fund programs that address the special needs of girls and women

Letter from Jim Maddox inviting the recipient to join him and other friends of organized labor to a meeting to discuss Maddox’s interest in the 1990 race for Governor of Texas

Letter, memos, and report on the activities of the department

Letters and other information about the visit to Austin by the Ambassador of Switzerland and his wife, Ambassador and Mrs. Klaus Jacobi

News release about the increased numbers of displaced homemakers, article from May 1990 DallaCite, and clippings

Remarks by Governor Clements at the Texans” War on Drugs Adult Leadership Conference, press release about Texas receiving $21.9 million from the federal government for drug law enforcement, issue of the National Governors Association Weekly Bulletins about the Associations opposition to efforts to derail state drug strategies, Heritage Foundation executive memorandum about President George Bush’s declaration of war on drugs, and a clipping

Letter, memo, newsletters, announcements for conferences, clippings, report titled Critical Economic Development Legislative Issues and the Public/Private Sector Initiatives, and first draft/discussion piece report of the Business development and Jobs Creation Task Force

Memos, press release, six speeches by Governor Clements, newsletters, report, and clippings about the status of the Texas economy and efforts to improve it

Recommendations of the Business Development and Jobs Creation Task Force

Program summary on CHANCE [Companies Hiring Available women Needing a Chance in Entry-level jobs], note, and brochure about CHANCE

Letter, note, Texas Economic Briefs for October-November 1987, U. S. Economic Briefs for October 1988, clipping, August 1989 Texas Business Review, March and April 1989 Texas Perspective, Texas Business Guide: A Handbook for Foreign Manufacturers and Service Industries, and a Heritage Foundation report titled Making America More Competitive: A Platform for Global Economic Success

Memo explaining why the decision makes local enrichment impossible and a report on the Constitutional Framework for Legislative Response to Edgewood v. Kirby, a lawsuit about funding of public schools in Texas

Letter, note, memo providing Mrs. Clements information to use at the School Counselors Conference, report on education initiatives by the Family Resource Coalition, report titled HB 72 Two Years Later by the Speaker of the House, newsletter Capital Ideas by the National Governors’ Association, and reports on education by the Governors of Rhode Island and Arkansas

Letters, clippings, memo comparing distinctions between the original decision in Edgewood v. Kirby and the decision of the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Austin on the case, reports and resolution of the Texas State Board of Education, program for the awards luncheon in Dallas for the US Academic Decathlon winners, speech on restructuring public education by Xerox Corporation chairman and chief executive officer David T. Kearns, speech titled Education and the Future: A Need for a Consensus for Excellence by U. S. Commissioner of Education, and newsletters

Reports titled The Purposes of American Education Today: Conceptions of Schooling, What Works: Research about Teaching and Learning, Texas: The State and Its Educational System, and Return to Greatness: Strategies for Powerful Improvements in Our Schools

Letters including one cover letter with which Governor Clements sent a statement The Facts about the Governor’s Education Budget to all the superintendent of schools in Texas, a memo report from the Texas Foundation for Higher Education chairman Jess Hay about Texas Education: The Momentum Is Restored, table comparing education appropriations for 1987 with those for 1988-89, talking points for Mrs. Clements at Tarleton State University, speech by Governor Clements titled The Challenge of Higher Education, an op ed piece by Governor Clements on School Financing, table comparing resident and nonresident tuition rates in institutions of higher education, 1986-1996, and reports titled The Education Crisis: Washington Shares the Blame by the Heritage Foundation, Tracking Higher Education by the Texas and Higher Education Finance: A Decade of Growth by the Texas Research League, Excellence in Texas—Higher Education: Report from Texas Women’s Alliance Second Annual Conference, draft of A Review of Governance and Management Practices in Texas Public Higher Education—Executive Summary to the Select Committee on Higher Education by Coopers & Lybrand, tables providing averaged budget faculty salaries in Texas institutions of higher education, and clippings

Press releases from the Office of the Governor, speech by Governor Clements to the Texas Research Seminar in Dallas, commencement address by Peter O’Donnell, Jr. at the University of Texas at Austin, remarks by President Gerald Ford, governor Terry Branstad, and Education Secretary Lauro Cavasos at the University of Virginia, opinion of the Texas Supreme Court in the case of Edgewood v. Kirby, information packet by the University of Texas at Austin regarding benefits for graduate student assistants, copy for a news article on a ruling of District Judge Scott McCown on the constitutionality of the public school financing system, National Governors’ Association newsletters, articles titled Dallas and Its Public Schools: A Critical Juncture by Marvin Edwards and Schoolhouse Equality by Julie Kosterlitz, program for a Texas Women’s Alliance conference titled Texas Public Education Reform: Reality or Illusion?, proposal titled An Internationally Competitive Workforce for Texas by the Year 2000 by Texas Business and Education Coalition, proposal and report on Educational Excellence Programs in Texas by Governor Clements, and clippings

Speech titled Education Goals: An Action Plan by Ernest L. Boyer at the National Governors’ Association meeting

Report titled Efficiency and Inefficiency in the Texas Public Schools by Michael L. Davis and Kathy J. Haynes

Agenda for the January 30, 1990 meeting of the Governor’s Task Force on Public Education, letters about and copy of a report on the Grand Prairie Independent School District, a proposed scope of a performance audit of the Texas Central Education Agency, brief notes an numerous education issues, brief report and chart on public school finance options, draft report of the Governor’s Task Force on Public Education titled The Path to a Quality Education for all Texas Students, position paper on public school finance by United Way of Texas, brief report on national education goals by the National Governors’ Association, press releases, article titled Saving the Schools: How Business Can Help from the November 7, 1988 issue of Fortune, National Governors’ Association newsletters, and clippings

Letters, memo, list of members of Coordinating Board Advisory Committees, table of funds appropriated for higher education in 1985 and 1990-91, a portion of CSSB [Committee Substitute Senate Bill] 222 appropriating money to support higher education, copies of CSHB [Committee Substitute House Bills] 2181, 2182, and 2183 relating funding for higher education, testing reading, writing, and mathematics skills of college and university students prior to admission, and submission of a statement of the content, rationale and objectives of core curricula, copy of portions of the executive summary of A Review of Governance and Management Practices in Texas Public Higher Education as reported to the Select Committee on Higher Education by Coopers & Lybrand in December 1986, the April 15, 1988 issue of Capital Ideas titled Effective Statewide Coordination of Higher Education: What Is It?, and clippings

Short reports titled Pre-School Education for the Disadvantaged: Executive Summery Maximum Class Size in Grades Kindergarten through Grade Four, and Influence of Class Size on Educational Achievement and Quality: A Review of Current Literature

Letter from and copy of A Texas Plan for a National Energy Policy by Kent R. Hance a commissioner of the Texas Railroad Commission

Annual Reports by Comptroller Bob Bullock for the fiscal year ended August 32, 1987 and Biennial Revenue Estimate, 71st Legislature 1990-91 by comptroller Bob Bullock

Letters, three issues of the national newsletter Key Notes, and two issues of the national magazine Concepts

Four issues of the publication of the National Governors’ Association

Letters, notes, schedule of activities for Governors’ wives, invitation to a dinner, lists of those wives who accepted and those who regretted, lists of first ladies and former first ladies of Texas present, report on the seminar, letter of agreement with the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin about housing and meeting and banquet rooms, a brochure on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and report titled Governors’ Wives: Women of Influence by Lewis L. Gould published by the Lafollette Institute

Agendas and related materials, January 1989-September 1990, press release from the Secretary of State about the final report of the Governor’s Task Force on Campaign Finance Reform, and information on the several issues considered and notes proposed legislation to address the issues

Letters, notes, clipping, brochure about the 1988 historic homes tour in Galveston, copy of Senate Bill 294 (1989) relating to the creation of the Texas Preservation Trust Fund and the preservation of historic property and an article by Ernest Wood about Texas Historical Commission staff member Anice Read and the Main Street Program form the June 1990 issue of Southern Living

Clippings and FY 1990 Mid Year Budget Report Briefing

Report of Governor Clements’ key issues for the 71st Legislature, speech of Governor Clements to the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Convention in Houston, memo on the FY 1990 general revenue balance, Heritage Foundation report titled The State of the States: Time for a Bush Federalism Policy, article by Geoffrey Leavenworth titled The Price of Mercy from the February 1988 issue of Texas Business, newsletter from Texas Congressman Bill Archer, and clippings

Agendas for two meetings of the group, notes, memos, status reports on certain legislative items, list of legislative items with indications of the office or individual responsible for monitoring each one, list of bills aimed at reducing the premature release of convicted criminals, list of members of the House of Representatives with phone numbers, press release about Governor Clements designating Victims’ Rights Week, report of Richard Land on House Bill 2020 about licensing private residential care facilities, report on Governor Clements’ jobs plan, and a memo from the Secretary of State regarding campaign finance reform

Letters, note, article titled Profile in Excellence: Governor Rose Mofford [of Arizona] by Michael T. Spahle, remarks by Governor Clements[?] titled Speech to “Military Order of the World Wars” in Tuscon, Arizona, August 19, 1987, and speech by Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh titled Unconventional Wisdom in Politics and Government to the Distinguished Leader Breakfast sponsored by Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, June 20, 1986