Defining Public Policy
Most commonly, public policies comes in the forms of these.
What is laws or statutes?
During this stage, a policy is monitored to make sure it is having the intended effect.
What is "evaluation"?
This law requires schools to create and implement IEPs for students with learning disabilities.
What is the Indiviudals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Data showing that people approve of the ACA would relate to this evaluation critera.
What is acceptablility?
Because of this, there are policies made at the federal, state and local level.
During this stage, legislators vote on whether to pass or reject a law.
What is policy adoption?
This law requires schools to keep your data confidential, allows you and your parents to see your school records.
What is th Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
These are given to people to help pay their rent to a private landlord.
What is a Housing Voucher (section 8 housing)?
What is feasibility?
These are the people who are impacted, either positively or negatively, by a policy.
What are stakeholders?
Attending a protest or writting a letter to a legislator would be done during this stage.
What is agenda setting?
This federal law attempted to assess shcools by requiring students to take standardized tests.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
These two programs relate to the health and wellbeing of children.
What are WIC and CHIP?
Redlining involves which evaluation criteria?
What is equity?
This is the role that the U.S. Department of Education, MSDE, and school administrators all plays in public policy.
What is they implement policy?
What is brainstorming ideas and writing the policy?
The main stakeholders involved in this law are female students and athletes.
What is Title IX (9)?
What is data showing improved health outcomes for children?
What is the definition of public policy (it contains three main elements)?
What is: made by the government, on behalf of the public, to solve an issue or problem.
The Kerwin Commission study is an example of this phase of policy making.
What is defining the problem?
This law provides federal funding for CTE (Career and Technical Education) programs.
What is the Perkins Act?
This law was passed to eliminate discriminatory housing practices such as redlining.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
Problems with social security are most related to this evaluation criteria.
What is sustainability?