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)?
According the Blueprint for MD, when do students need to be College and Career ready by?
What is the 10th grade?
This is the institution that makes policy for Baltimore County Public Schools.
What is the BCPS Board of Education?
What are interests?
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?
This is one way that the Board of Education gets stakeholder input.
What is the public comment portion of the BOE meeting?
Government agencies enact these to implement policieis.
What are rules and/or regulations?
Lobbying congress would be done during this stage.
What is adoption?
This federal law attempted to improve education and close achievement gaps by requiring standardized tests.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
What is the Maryland General Assembly?
These 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 always impacted by policy and sometimes involved in making it.
Who are stakeholders?
The Kerwin Commission study is an example of this phase of policy making.
What is defining the problem?
This is the main stakeholder group for Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972.
Who are female students and athletes.
Which pillar of the Blueprint for MD's Future requires teachers be paid at least $60,000 year?
What is High quality and diverse teachers
What is instructional salaries and wages?
Which institution adopted the Clery Act?
What is the United States Congress?
What is implementation?
This law requires that schools be ranked using a star system which is made public.
What is ESSA (Every student succeeds 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)
These are two of the five foucs areas of BCPS.
What are: learning, accountability and results; safe and supportive environment; High performing workforce; community engagement, and operational excellence?