Key Terms
A system of roads, bridges, water, and sewer systems.
What is infrastructure?
A type of school that received public funding but is run by an independent organization.
What is a charter school?
This country has the highest number of criminals in jails and prison of any country in the world.
What is the United States?
The government's plan to solve problems or resolve issues in the community.
What is public policy?
This is the technical term for garbage.
What is solid waste?
A place where garbage is dumped.
What is a landfill?
This is how the federal government encourages states to follow national education policy.
What are grants-in-aid?
These types of communities deal with more crime issues than most other communities.
What are cities?
Government provides this type of program to people suffering from poverty, health issues, old age, or disability.
What is welfare?
This type of waste includes radioactive waste, batteries, motor oil, and pesticides.
What is hazardous waste?
The attitude of opposing the creation of necessary but undesirable facilities in one's community.
What is NIMBY (not in my back yard)?
This level of government has primary responsibility for managing public education.
What is state government?
This type of police agency primarily deals with highway safety.
What is the state police or state highway patrol?
These are the money, people, and materials a community has to help achieve their goals.
What are resources?
The practice of preserving and protecting natural resouces.
What is conservation?
A certificate that provides government money to families to pay private school tuition.
What are tuition vouchers?
Critics of tuition vouchers argue that providing government money to religious schools violates this clause of the Bill of Rights.
What is the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment?
Crime often goes hand in hand with this social and economic issue.
What is poverty?
This type of public policy plan can guide the community over several decades.
What is a long-term plan?
This federal organization sets and enforces pollution standards.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
An advisory group to a community made up of government officials, citizens, and professionals.
What is a planning commission?
A 2001 federal law that provides money to states and requires standardized testing.
What is No Child Left Behind?
This type of crime prevention involves the police patrolling neighborhoods on foot or bicycle and working with neighborhood groups.
What is community policing?
This 1996 federal program provides funding for state welfare and requires job training for those receiving benefits.
What is TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)?
This practice refers to building economic growth without harming the environment.
What is sustainable development?