Tennessee Higher Education and State Government Sites
Tennessee Higher Education and State Government Sites
Tennessee Higher Education Sites
- Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
(Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- State and Regional Gateway (H-Net)
- State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
- Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- TACIR Publications (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
- Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
- Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
- The Big Payoff: Educational
Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
July 2002, U.S Census Bureau Special Report
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
- TACIR Publications (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Internet Tutorials (University of Albany Libraries)
- Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
- Shaping the Future: The Economic Impact of Public Universities (Adobe .pdf format)
(National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges)
- College Affordability in Jeopardy: A Special Supplement to National Crosstalk
(National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Beyond the 49th Parallel II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities
- Higher Education Resource Hub
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
(Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
- National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Edcuation Policymaking and Analysis
(National Center for Higher Education Management Systems)
- State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)
- Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
(Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
- Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
(Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- Tennessee Community Colleges
(Community College Review: Community and Junior Colleges)
- Education in Tennessee (Official site)
- Office of Career Services, TTU
- Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
- Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
- Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
(Government Performance Project)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- TACIR Publications (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
- National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Economic Statistics and Research (Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration)
- Small Business State Profiles [1996-Present] (Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration)
- State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps
Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
(Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
- Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Annual Tennessee State budget summaries and Annual Factbooks (Senate and House Finance,
Ways and Means Committees, Tennessee General Assembly)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- United Way State of Caring Index: A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
- Tennessee (United Way State of Caring Index)
- State Fiscal Outlook for FY2002, October 31, 2001 report (National Conference of State Legislatures)
- Measuring Up 2000: The State-By-State Report Card on Higher Education
(National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
- Who Will Stay and Who Will Leave? (Southern Growth Policies Board)
- Taxes/Budget (stateline.org)
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States
(Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
- Report Card 2000 (Tennessee Department of Education)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Tennessee Division of Budget (official state site)
- Tennessee Dollars: Where Do They Come From? Where Do They Go? (NPT-TV, PBS Nashville)
- Annual Tennessee State budget summaries and Annual Factbooks (Senate and House Finance,
Ways and Means Committees, Tennessee General Assembly)
- Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
- Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Southern Growth Policies Board (Research Triangle Park, NC)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps
Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
(Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
- Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Beyond the 49th Parallel II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Funding Higher Education in the New Millenium:
A Forum on Tax Reform, October 14, 1999
- Center for Business and Economic Research Publications (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- Education (The Pew Center on the States)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Southern Regional Education Board
- Fact Book on Higher Education 2001
(Southern Regional Education Board)
- Tennessee Featured Facts
(SREB Fact Book on Higher Education)
[.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- Faculty Salaries in Colleges and Universities: Where Do SREB States Stand? (Southern Regional Education Board)
- Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC)
- Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR)
- Defining Our Future report, Tennessee Board of Regents, December 2001
- Faculty Sub-Council Response to Defining Our Future report
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
- University of Tennessee System
- Tennessee Independent College and Universities
- Tennessee Community Colleges
(Community College Review: Community and Junior Colleges)
- Interpret With Caution: The First State Title II Reports on the Quality of
Teacher Preparation, June 2002 [Adobe Acrobat .pdf format] (The Education Trust)
- Who Should Teach? Quality Counts 2000 (Education Week)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Education in Tennessee (Official State of Tennessee site)
- Tennessee Department of Education
- Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- Report Card 2000 (Tennessee Department of Education)
- Office of Teacher Licensing (Tennessee Department of Education)
- Earning a Tennessee Teacher
License (Tennessee Department of Education)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Council for Higher Education Accreditation (Washington, D.C.)
- Council for Higher Education Accreditation Directories
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (Washington, D.C.)
- International Archive of Education Data (National Center for Education Statistics)
- National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
- Electronic Catalog for National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
- Digest of Education Statistics, 1999 (National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- The Condition of Education
(National Center for Education Statistics)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (University of Washington)
State Government and Tennessee Government Sites
- Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
- nationmaster.com [statistical comparisons among countries by category]
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
- Tennessee (Law Library of Congress)
- Tennessee (State and Local Government on the Internet)
- Tennessee (Law Library of Congress)
- Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- TACIR Publications (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
(Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
- Lewis J. Laska, "A History of Personal Income Taxation in Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Winter 2001): 220-243.
- State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Pay for People: Compensating Tennessee's State Workers (Comptroller of the Treasury, Office of Research, State of Tennessee)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
- Annual Tennessee State budget summaries and Annual Factbooks (Senate and House Finance,
Ways and Means Committees, Tennessee General Assembly)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
- The Big Payoff: Educational
Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- Beyond the 49th Parallel II: The Affordability of Higher Education (Educational Policy Institute)
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- "Funding for Public Colleges and Universities Continues to Lose Battle with Enrollment Growth and Inflation," Fact Book Bulletin, February 2006 (Southern Regional Education Board)
- At What Cost? The Price That Working Students Pay for a College Education
(The State PIRGs' Higher Education Project)
- Education in Tennessee (Official
site)
- Tennessee Anytime.com (Official Tennessee site)
- How to Register to Vote in the United States (registervote.com)
- Registration and Voting Information in the State of Tennessee (registervote.com)
- Government & Politics (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The Pew Center on the States
- The 50 States Project (Center for Public Integrity)United States Government--States (Policy.com)
- State and Local Government on the Internet
- U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
- Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
- Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
- Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
(Government Performance Project)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
- 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
- Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
- TACIR Publications (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
- Measuring Up 2000: The State-By-State Report Card on Higher Education
(National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
- Tennessee Municipal League (official site)
- Biographical Directory of United States Congress, 1774-Present (official site)
- Civic Education--State Legislative Database (National Conference of State Legislatures)
- State Net
- Election Data Services, Inc.
- State Government Finance Data, by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
- 2002 State New Economy Index (Progressive Policy Institute)
- Measuring Fiscal
Disparities across the U.S. States: A Representative Revenue System/Representative Expenditure System Approach,
Fiscal Year 2002 (The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Tennessee [National Information Infrastructure] Inventory Project (states.org)
- State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps
Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
- Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income
Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
- Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
(Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
- Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
- Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County (August 2007)
(Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
(Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- State Tax Collection Data by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Annual Tennessee State budget summaries and Annual Factbooks (Senate and House Finance,
Ways and Means Committees, Tennessee General Assembly)
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Public Agena: a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand crticial isssues
- The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- College Costs (American Council on Education)
(includes link to Report of the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education,
January 21, 1998)
- The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee, April 2003 (Tenessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
- International City/County Management Association
- National Association of Counties
- StateStandards.com: State Educational Standards Coupled to Lesson Plans and Resources
- Tennessee (State and Local Government on the Internet)
- 1999 TBR Annual Report Card(s)
- 1998 TBR Annual Report Card(s)
- Tennessee School Report Card (Nashville Tennessean newspaper)
- From Classrooms to Cell
Blocks: A National Perspective ( Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice)
- Tennessee Department of Health
- Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
- Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Highlights Reports from Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education from Birth to Adfulthood
(Education Week with support from Pew Center on the States)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- Tennesseans for Fair Taxation
- National Council on Teacher Quality
- State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
(Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
- State of Tennessee Government and Politics (Project Vote Smart)
- Voter Information Services
- Tennessee information (The Pew Center on the States)
- Tennessee State Government Officials (Policy.com)
- TACIR Publications (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Center for Business and Economic Research Publications (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- Tennessee Labor Links
- Tennessee Constitution
- Division of Elections, Tennessee Department of State
- Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
- Tennessee Congressional District Map
- Tennessee General Assembly
- Annual Tennessee State budget summaries and Annual Factbooks (Senate and House Finance,
Ways and Means Committees, Tennessee General Assembly)
- Tennessee Legislative Internship Program
(Tennessee General Assembly)
- Tennessee Senate District Map
- Tennessee Senate (e-mail links)
- Tennessee House District Map
- Tennessee House of Representatives (e-mail links)
- e-mail to Senator Charlotte Burks
- e-mail to Representative Henry Fincher (D-House District 42)
- Tennessee Supreme Court
- TennesseePolitics (NewSource Business Intelligence)
- Political Candidates of Tennessee (Aeneas Internet Service)
- Civic Education--State Legislative Database (National Conference of State Legislatures)
- Write Your Representative (Official U.S. House of Representatives site)
- Contacting Senators via the Internet (Official U.S. Senate site)
Public Opinion Polling and Research
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