What is 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"?
What is the Indiviudals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This is the state agency resonsible for implementing education policy for Maryland.
What is the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)?
What is the BCPS Board of Education?
This is the role that courts play in public policy.
What is their decisions influence policy, but they don't make policy?
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 give public funding for people who qualify to attend private schools.
What are school vouchers?
These are two examples of education policies that are made at the local level.
What are: dress code, grading policy, calendar, transportation, staffing, behavior policy, etc.
Government agencies enact these to implement policieis.
What are rules and/or regulations?
This is when either an event or pressure from the public causes an issue or problem to gain attention.
What is agenda setting?
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
This is where all the rules and regulations that are made to implement and enforce Maryland law are complied.
What is COMAR (Code of Maryland)?
This institutions must approve the budget before it is adopted by the Board of Education.
What is the Baltimore County Council (and the Baltimore County Executive)?
These are the people who are impacted, either positivley or negatively, by a policy.
What is a stakeholder?
The Kerwin Commission study is an example of this phase of policy making.
What is defining the problem?
This is the institution that implements federal education policy.
What is the U.S. Department of Education?
These are two examples of education policies that are made at the state level.
What are number of school days, approving courses and curriculums, requiring disciplinary policies, graduation requirements, ect.?
What is instructional salaries and wages?
The ACLU attempts to influence public policies that align with it's mission. This is the role the ACLU plays in the process.
What is an interest?
What is implementation?
This is the main stakeholder group for Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972.
Wh0 are female students?
These are two of the three main goals/pillars of the Bluepring for Maryland's Future.
What is: Early Childhood Educaiton, College and Career Readiness, and Highly Qualified & Diverse Teachers, More resources for students success, Governance and Accountability.
These are topics of 2 of the 5 focus areas of BCPS Board of Education.
What are: effective educational programing, community engagement, maintenance of physical plant, efficient operations and fiscal responsiblity, board conduct?