True or False/Other
School Beginnings
Public School Alternatives
Testing
Financial Issues
100
True or False: Our mayor is a woman
True
100
What is it called when the parents or guardians teach the students?
Home Schooling
100
How many kids attend private school?
6 million
100
What's one test that our state requires?
PSSA, Keystone, etc...
100
School districts in _________ areas receive much more money than those in ________ areas.
Wealthy, poorer
200
True or False: Private schools receive state funding
False
200
How many kids attend public elementary and secondary schools?
50 million
200
About how many kids are homeschooled?
1.5 million
200
What subjects does the Federal Government require tests in?
Math, Reading, Science
200
The Federal Government provides about __ percent of school funding.
8%
300
True or False: A tuition voucher helps parents pay taxes so their kids can go to public school If true, continue. If false, give correct definition of tuition voucher
False, a tuition helps parents pay tuition for their kids to go to private school
300
Today in most states _______ _____________ still run elementary and secondary schools.
Local communities
300
How many states now allow charter schools?
40 states
300
Some states require _______ tests that must be passed to advance to the next grade.
Competency
300
45% of school funding (in 2008) came from _____ _______?
State funds
400
Teacher unions oppose ______ vouchers because it takes _______ from the public school system and into the private school system.
Tuition, funds
400
Offering free and public education to the United states after the ____ ___.
Civil War
400
The Supreme Court has ruled that it is _____________ to use vouchers (tuition vouchers=certificates for helping parents pay for tuition to private schools) for these schools.
Constitutional
400
People argue that required testing causes teachers to spend valuable classroom time on _____ _______ ___________.
Test taking stratgies
400
The schools receive money from the ______ ________ , and in exchange all local schools have to follow certain rules.
Federal Government
500
Who is our mayor, and our governor?
Elizabeth Goreham, Tom Corbett
500
When and where was the first modern public school system?
Louisiana, 1816
500
Charter schools do not have to meet many of the ______ for public schools.
Regulations (or rules)
500
Tests can... - measure student's ______ - show student's _____ and _______ - show how well teachers and schools are _______ children
Learning, strengths and weaknesses, educating
500
In ________ president George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind act which made all states test students in grades __-__ in reading, science, and math
2001, 3-8
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