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20 Cards in this Set
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Policy Making Process Steps |
Problem Identification Policy Formulation Implementation Evaluation |
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Problem Identification |
Identifying a systemic agenda in which issues are commonly perceived as involving matters with in governmental authority Ex) Prob with Poverty |
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Policy Formulation |
General ideas become clarified and strategies for declining with these specially defined problems are developed Ex) Institutional Agenda - Settings |
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Implementation |
Public policy put into effort by gov. identifying the appropriate agency to implement A program is crucial at this stage and budgetary policy and of the strategies employed |
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Evaluation |
Policies must be evaluated for effectiveness Good evaluation can allow for a rethinking of the policy and of teh strategies employed |
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AFDC |
Aid to families with department children Federally and state financed program for children living with parents or relatives who fell below state standards of needs Replaced in 96' by TANF |
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TANF |
Temporary assistance for needy families Welfare program passed in 96' to provide temporary assistance to families with needy children Sought to make poor families self-sufficient and to give states greater flexibility in setting benefit levels |
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SSI |
Supplemental security income National welfare program passed in 71' provides assistance to low income elderly or disabled individuals Replaced the federal state programs |
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Medicaid |
Provides health care of poor ppl |
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PPACA |
Patient perfection and Affordability care Act (Obama Care) Requires ppl to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty Expands Medicaid |
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TWDB |
TX water development board The primary water planning and financing agency in TX Develops water resources Maintains quality and assure equitable distribution of water rights Composed 6 terms |
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Law of Capture |
1st Person to capture the water by pumping it out of the ground using it owns the water |
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Gilmer - Alkin Laws |
Established a framework for education policy in TX |
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Desegregation |
Few issues have troubled educational policy in TX as much as this one Involved Board V. Education |
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Equity in Public School Funding
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Other important cases have affected education policy and politics in TX in the past 30 years |
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San Antonio V. Rodriguez |
On the constitutionally of using property taxes to fund public schools Court ruled TX's school finance system unconstitutional under U.S's equal protection clause; but the decision was overturned on appeal to the U.S. supreme court in 73' |
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Edgewood ISD V. Kirby |
Whether funding public schools through local property taxes fulfilled the TX state constitution's provisions |
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Equal Protection Clause |
Part of the 14th Amendment No State shall deny to any person within it's jurisdiction |
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State Board of Education |
A board of directors of trustees of a school Local schools districts or higher administrative level |
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TX Education Agency |
A branch of the state gov. of Texas in the US responsible for public education |