creating & evaluating policy
If someone where to study the impact of a policy, this would illustrate this phase of the policy-making process.
What is evaluation?
This is the institution that creates policy for Maryland schools.
What is MSD (Maryland State Department of Education)?
This set the agenda for many of the social welfare programs that began in the 1930s, including social secruity and unemployment insurance.
What is the Great Depression?
This was initiated by President Nixon, and continued by president's Johnson, Reagan, and Clinton.
What is the War on Drugs?
This is the federal agency, created by Clean Air Act, is responsible for enforcing environmental laws through regulation.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
The debate over a bill in a congressional committee illustrates this phase of the policy-making process.
What is adoption?
This law requires schools to provide accomodations for students with disablities by implementing an IEP.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA)?
These provide government subsidies to help renters pay rent to private landlords.
What are Housing Choice Vouchers?
This refers to the high rate of imprisoned individuals as a result of the War on Drugs.
What is mass incarceration?
This organization's radical activists approach led to a ban on whalling in the 1980s.
What is Green Peace?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and EPA are involved in this phase of the policy-making process.
What is implementation?
This law requires schools to keep student records private.
What is FERPA?
This law requires people to have health insurance, removed lifetime caps on insurance costs, and allowed parents to keep kids insured until 26.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
These president supported passage of the 1994 Crime Bill, and later apolgized for it's inequitable impact.
Who is Willam (Bill) Clinton
This institution implements immigration policy in the United States.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
A survey showing people's opinion of a proposed policy would relate to this evaluation criteria.
What is acceptability?
This law makes school performance public using a star ranking system.
What is ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act)?
This law was passed to end racist policies related to housing policy, including redlining.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
This interest group is opposed to making people pay cash to get out of jail while awaiting trial.
What is the Bail Project?
This law was passed in reaction to the arlarming rate of animal extinctions in the 1970s.
What is Endangered Species Act?
What is agenda setting?
This body studied education in Maryland in order to better define the problems faced by the Maryland school system; led to Blueprint for MD's future.
What is the Kerwin Commission?
These types of programs are available to receipts who qualify based on income, such as food stamps and TANF.
What are means-tested programs?
This theory holds the all people have the opportunity to influence the government by joining interest groups.
What is pluralism?
This policy, enacted by President Obama, gave temporary legal status to children of undocumented immigrants.
What is DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)