[2] Texas Education Code (TEC) 327.005.

[3] TEC 327.001.

[4] TEC 11.021.

[5] Research Triangle Institute, Final Technical Report. A study to make recommendations regarding a comprehensive state occupational education program, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1982, p. 51.

[6] TEC 11.02.

[7] Price Waterhouse. Performance Audit of the Texas Central Education Agency: Final Report. October 26, 1990, p. I-2.

8 TEC 11.21 et seq.

[9] TEC 11.24.

[10] Texas Gov. Code Ann. Sec. 327.001 (Vernon 1987).

[11] TEC 11.51 et seq.

[12] TEC 11.51.

[13] TEC 11.62.

[14] TEC 11.29.

[15] TEC 11.63.

[16] Kathy Lally, "Changing of the Old Guard: States Turn Toward Helping Rather than Regulating," The School Administrator, (March 1991), pp. 8-23.

[17] Susan L. Holt, "State Education Agency Services: Limitations and Prerequisites for Change," Planning & Changing: A Journal for School Administrators, Fall 1987 volume 18, number 3.

[18] Price Waterhouse, p. I-6

[19] TEC 11.33.

[20] TEC 11.32 and Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Chapter 53.

[21] Texas Education Agency, Biennial Report on Regional Education Service Centers, Austin, Texas, March 1989, pp. 1-4.