Governance
_______ may not be involved legally in the governance of schools, but they do play an important role in education.
What are parents?
The greatest expenditure for each student in education.
What is instruction?
The largest school district in Washington State.
What is Seattle Public School district?
Teachers are required by law to report suspected child ___________.
What is abuse?
School districts generally have _______ to control student expression off campus.
What are no rights?
In most communities, school board members are elected in ______________.
What are general elections?
Out of federal, state, and local, __________ provides the greatest percentage of funding toward elementary and secondary schools.
What is the state?
Washington is ranked ____ in teacher salary.
The rights to certification, nondiscrimination, a teaching contract, due process, and academic freedom.
What are teacher's legal rights?
In response to an increase of unruly students who disrupt the learning of others, a few districts and states have granted teachers the authority to ______ students for up to 10 days.
What is suspend?
_____________ refers to how people use power, influence, and authority to affect instructional and curricular practices within a school or school system
What is educational politics?
At the local level, most funding for schools comes from ___________.
What are property taxes?
Washington is ranked _______ out of the states in overall education. (2023)
What is 31st?
The continuing development of information technology has resulted in a new set of responsibilities for teachers regarding __________ pertaining to the use of photocopies, videotapes, and computer software.
What are copyright laws?
In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Doe that states cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education because of their ___________.
What is immigrant status?
In 1979, _______________ signed a law creating the Department of Education.
Who is President Carter?
Additional state-appropriated funds to cover the costs of educating students with special needs are known as _________________.
What is categorical aid?
There are _________ school districts in Washington State.
What is just under 300?
The teacher's right that was protected in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is the right of nondiscrimination?
In 1972, cases in TENNESSEE, OHIO, MONTANA, and TEXAS established the right of _________ students to participate in extracurricular activities.
What is married?
The Department of Education employs about 4,400 people and had an annual budget of approximately _________ for Fiscal Year 2017.
What is $69 billion?
The largest amount of private support for education in the United States comes from the ____________________________.
What is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
How much a school spent per student, in Washington (as of 2023)
What is just over $17,000?
A policy that provides the individual teacher with job security by preventing his or her dismissal on insufficient grounds and providing him or her with due process in the event of dismissal.
What is tenure?
The amendment that gave parents of students under 18 and students 18 and older the right to examine their school records.
What is the Buckley Amendment?