The Texas Constitution mandates a “________ budget”
What is balanced?
100
______________ refers to the outputs of governmental institutions
What is public policy?
100
The _________ required districts to adopt policies that would protect religious speech on campus
What is the Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act?
100
In _________________ the Court ruled that state-imposed segregation in schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
___________ provides for the health care of poor people.
What is Medicaid?
200
The budget is addressed in Articles ____,____, and _____ of the Texas Constitution.
What are Articles 3, 8, and 16?
200
With a ____________ such as sales tax, the tax burden falls more heavily on lower-income individuals
What is a regressive tax?
200
Schools were not really desegregated in Texas until the DOJ filed suit in _________?
What is 1970?
200
School districts are primarily funded by ___________.
What are property taxes?
200
The _______________ requires individuals to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
300
The __________________ funds primary and secondary schools.
What is the Permanent School Fund (PSF)?
300
The _________________ is responsible for drawing up and passing the budget.
What is the legislature (The legislative budget board)?
300
The plaintiff in San Antonio v. Rodríguez used the _______________ in the Fourteenth Amendment to argue its case.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
300
Texas adopted the ____________ to achieve equitable funding.
What is the Robin Hood plan?
300
In 2014, _______ of Texans lived below the poverty line
What is 17.4 percent?
400
_____________________ is the budget for a nondedicated revenue account that functions as the state’s primary operating fund
What is the General Revenues Fund budget?
400
___________, ___________, ____________, ____________ are the steps in the policy making process.
What is Problem Identification, Policy Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation?
400
The ___________ supplemented local funding of education with public monies, raised teachers’ salaries, mandated a min. length for the school year, and provided for more state supervision of public education
What are the Gilmer-Aikin Laws?
400
The _________ led to the Texas Examination of Current Administrators and Teachers
What is the Education Reform Act?
400
Medicaid is administered through the _______________.
What is Texas Health and Human Services Commission?
500
With a _____________, the tax burden falls more heavily on upper-income individuals
What is a progressive tax?
500
______________ is one of nine states with no personal income tax; but there is a high sales tax
What is Texas?
500
The two cases addressing reverse discrimination in Texas were ______________ and ______________.
What are Hogwood v. Texas and Fisher v. The University of Texas?
500
_________________ asked whether funding public schools through local property taxes fulfilled the Texas State Constitution’s provisions.
What is Edgewood ISD v. Kirby?
500
____________ and ____________ are the two measure by which one determined the efficiency of the welfare system in the state.
What is the number of people receiving welfare and the degree to which reforms take people off ?welfare