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100
The three levels of government that contribute to NYC school funding.
What are federal, state, and city?
100
Three stakeholder groups in the New York education system
Who are students, parents, and teachers?
100
7 categories of education resources required by the NYS constitution
What are personnel, instructional materials, curricula, class size, instrumentalities of learning, safe and orderly environment, expanded platform of services for “at risk” students, adequate resources for students with extraordinary needs, facilities?
100
The difference in average property wealth per pupil between low-wealth districts and high-wealth districts in the state of New York?
What is $168,935 per student?
200
The source of New York students' educational rights
What is the New York State Constitution?
200
The state-level government official responsible for overseeing educational standards, developing a comprehensive teacher-evaluation system, and raising student achievement.
Who is the Commissioner of Education? (Bonus if you can give us her name (or part of it.)
200
The grade level(s) at which, by law, all students must receive information-skills instruction and general support from a certified library media specialist.
What is “secondary” or what are “middle and high school”?
200
The number of “high-need” schools in the Campaign for Educational Equity research study on which many of the Know Your Educational Rights handouts are based.
What is 33 schools?
300
The name of the 13-year legal battle that established students’ rights to a Sound Basic Education
What is Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York State?
300
The NYC Dept. of Education official ultimately responsible for education of 1.1 million public-school students
Who is Chancellor Farina?
300
For NYC schools, the correct order of education policy decision-making authority in NYS, from least to most powerful: chancellor, commissioner, mayor, district superintendent, Board of Regents, principal.
What is principal, superintendent, chancellor, mayor, commissioner, Board of Regents?
300
In the CFE lawsuit, the New York State Court of Appeals decided that all New York students have a right to a “meaningful high school education” that prepares them to do these two things.
What are to “function productively as civic participants” and to “obtain competitive employment.”
400
Level of government that’s ultimately for making sure all NY students receive a “Sound Basic Education.”
What is the state?
400
This educational body, whose members are elected by the State Legislature, are responsible for the general supervision of all educational activities in NYS.
What is the Board of Regents?
400
Number of minutes of weekly instruction each student is entitled to receive in each of the following subject areas: ELA, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, The Arts, Health Education.
What is 180 minutes?
400
The year that New Yorkers for Students’ Educational Rights (NYSER) filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for its failure to comply with the CFE decision.
What is 2014?
500
In the CFE lawsuit, the New York State Court of Appeals decided that all New York students have a right to a “meaningful high school education” that prepares them to do these two things.
What are to “function productively as civic participants” and to “obtain competitive employment.”
500
These two individuals founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) in the early ‘90s in order to challenge the constitutionality of the state’s school-funding system.
Who are Robert Jackson and Michael Rebell?
500
The type of instructional program that schools are legally required to provide if a school serves more than 20 English Language Learners who use the same native language.
What is a bilingual program?
500
The state legislature agreed to implement the CFE decision in the Education Budget and Reform Act in this year.
What is 2007?
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