School Government
Organizations/ Businesses
Federal Government Influence
Finances
Miscellaneous
100
The people who are most influential in the establishment of educational policies.
What is state legislatures?
100
When decisions are made at the school level and thus teachers themselves are given the power become involved in the decisions that directly affect them and their students.
What is site-based decision making?
100
People who exercise considerable influence over schools in the country through legislation, court rulings, and the activities of the U.S. Department of Education.
What are the three branches of government?
100
The average national expenditure per people within public schools.
What is $9,557?
100
A federal program that aims to improve the learning skills, social skills, and health status of preschool-age, poor children so that they can begin schooling on an equal basis with their more advantaged peers.
What is Head Start?
200
The governing body that exercises general control and supervision of schools within the state.
What is the state board of education?
200
An organization of people who devise their own organizations and activities to fit the needs of the local school community.
What is the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO)?
200
The section of the government that has played a particularly important role in changing educational policies in this country.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
200
The primary form of income for local government spending within school districts.
What is property tax?
200
The name of the 2001 re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which was the federal government's single largest investment in elementary and secondary education including Title I.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
300
The governing body that represents the citizens of the district in setting up a school program, hiring school personnel to operate the schools, determining organizational and administrative policy, and evaluating the results of the program and the performance of personnel.
What is the local school board?
300
The group of people who have been at the forefront of efforts to restructure public education.
What is the business community?
300
The party that tends to be more supportive of both the department of education and federal efforts to improve education.
What is Democratic party?
300
Court ruling that stated that California's school-financing scheme was unconstitutional.
What is Serrano v. Priest?
300
A professional educator selected by the local school board to act as its executive officer and as the educational leader and administrator of the school district.
Who is the superintendent of schools?
400
The amendment to the U.S. constitution that gives states the right to govern public schools.
What is the tenth amendment?
400
When private businesses contract with school districts to provide specific educational services within public schools.
What is privatization?
400
Court case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the doctrine of separate but equal had no place in public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
400
Money that must be spent for designated purposes stated generally in the legislation and more precisely by the federal agency administering the funds.
What are categorical grants?
400
An organization that operates under the direction of the state board of education and is administered by the chief state school officer. They are responsible for carrying out the policies of the state board of education and the laws passed by the state legislature.
What is the state department of education?
500
The person usually responsible for the administration of public education and whom reports to the state board of education. (also known as superintendent of education, commissioner of education, secretary of the state board of education, as well as others.)
Who is the chief state school officer?
500
The most controversial business venture within public schools.
What is channel one?
500
Other federal agencies who devote billions of additional dollars for educational purposes.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense?
500
Sums of money that come with only minimal federal restrictions and are transferred from the federal government to the state governments as a block of money rather than by categories.
What are block grants?
500
The best education professor.
Who is Ms. Palmer? :)
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