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Privatization Movement
100
Refers to how people use power, influence, and authority to affect practices within a school system.
What is Educational Politics?
100
Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
What is BESE?
100
A federal initiative that provided funding for the provision of child care for the children of working parents during World War II
What is LANHAM Act of 1941?
100
At the local level, most funding comes from...
What are Property Taxes?
100
Independent Public School
What is a Charter School?
200
Ensures that schools, teachers, and administrators produce results.
What is Accountability?
200
Determines the length of the school day and school year, and years of compulsory education.
What is The Legislature?
200
Provided veterans with payments for tuition for college.
What is What is the G.I. Bill
200
Most state revenues come from...
What are state taxes and income taxes?
200
Schools that are operated by private educational corporations to maximize production.
What are For-Profit Schools?
300
Varies greatly in regards to demographics such as number of school-age children;educational, occupational, and income levels of parents.
What is Local School Districts?
300
An intervention applied to chronically low achieving schools and districts
What is State Takeover?
300
The United States Secretary of Education
Who is Arne Duncan?
300
Supplemental programs to help meet the needs of special student populations
What are Entitlements?
300
Largest for-profit educational company.
What are The Edison Schools?
400
Acting as a stage agent, is responsible for the following: approving the teachers, administrators, and other school personnel hired by the super intendent; deeolping organizational and educational policies; and determining procedures for evaluation programs and personnel.
What is a local school board?
400
The highest educational agency in a state.
What is The state board of education?
400
Supreme Court rulings supporting free speech rights of teachers and students
What is the First Amendment?
400
Federal Aid directly given to the states to be used as it wishes
What are Block Grants?
400
Some studies show Charter Schools out preform students at other schools, while other studies show the opposite.
What is Research on Charter Schools?
500
Shared governance, administrative decentralization, teacher empowerment, professionalization, and share decision making.
What is restructuring?
500
The chief state school officer in Louisiana.
Who is Paul Pastorec?
500
Funding provided after adopting federally endorsed program's methods or curricula
What is Categorical Aid?
500
Allocating state funds according to legitimate educational needs.
What is Vertical Equality?
500
A suggestion that teachers and other educational steak holders become the owners of schools.
What is Vedder's Approach to privatization of schools?