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Six weeks after Gov. Ted Strickland unveiled his "child-centered, evidenced-based" school-funding proposal, the administration has released a 37-page bibliography identifying where his strategies originated.

Lawmakers, educators and others had requested the information in an effort to evaluate the governor's plan.

Strickland's two-year education plan calls for all-day kindergarten statewide, smaller class sizes, increased professional development for teachers and staffing requirements for counselors, nurses and administrative personnel.

Much of the governor's plan was derived from an evidenced-based education model put together by academics Allan Odden and Lawrence Picus.

Strickland took that model which called for all-day kindergarten and tutoring for struggling students among other components and coupled it with ideas generated from other research and suggestions from education stakeholders.