Taxes and Spending
An amount of money that is held in reserve for use in emergencies and other special situations.
Budget Stabilization Funds
Crimes for which capital punishment is a lawful possible sentence.
Capital Felonies
Medicaid is *this* type of grant
Block Grant
A legal strategy that argues every school district must have a minimum amount of spending per student in order to satisfy a state's constitutional obligation to provide public education.
Adequacy Challenge
the process of injecting liquid at high pressure underground to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.
Fracking
A law requiring that revenues are sufficient to cover expenses over the time period covered by a budget.
Balanced Budget law
Serious offenses that often come with significant fines and prison sentences longer than a year.
Felony
a grant of federal money that attaches specific conditions to the spending of the money
Categorical grant
The second largest national teachers union.
American Federation of Teachers
The largest national teacher's union
National Education Association
A tax where individuals with higher incomes pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes.
Progressive Tax
Low-level offenses that often come with only fines or jail sentences of less than a year as a penalty.
Misdemeanors
a law put in place to immediately outlaw access to abortion in a state once the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
Trigger Law
A public agency responsible for governing one or more public universities.
Board of Governors
A public school that specializes in certain areas like math and science or performance arts.
Magnet school
A tax where individuals with lower incomes pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes.
Regressive Taxes
An agreement between the prosecution and a defendant that the prosecution will drop other charges and request an acceptable sentence in exchange for the defendant pleading guilty.
Plea Bargain
a welfare system that pays those who have lost a job, typically about half their pervious wages for about six months
Unemployment insurance
A public school that is operated by a private group.
Charter School
the process by which the federal government gives greater policy responsibility to the states
Devolution
A resolution passed by a legislature that authorizes spending for a limited time in the absence of a regular budget.
Continuing Resolution
Holding someone (who has been charged but not yet convicted) in jail while they await their trial.
Pre-Trial Detention
a term used to describe a situation in which standards are continuously lowered due to fear of competition
Race-to-the-Bottom
Technically a 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it required standardized tests and public disclosure of results as a condition of federal funds.
No Child Left Behind
an attempt to avoid the ability of a state to restrict abortion access by delegating enforcement of the law to private individuals.
Private enforcement