Educational Financing

2. Determine educational policy, and their members tend to be male, white, and not young.
3. Intended to ensure that all students have the basic skills they need to be effective citizens.
6. Court declared that education was not a "fundamental right" under the U.S. Constitution and that preserving local control was a legitimate reason to use the property tax system.
11. Can bring significant pressure to bear on which teachers stay in a school and which leave.
13. Performs the administrative task needed to implement the policy.
15. Creates teacher committees to share power between the principal and the faculty.
16. Shifts decision making from the central district office to individual schools.
18. A certificate of debt issued by a government guaranteeing payment of the original investment plus interest by a specified future date.
19. Companies that formalize a relationship with a school, by dedicating personnel or products or signing exclusive rights contracts, are said to have this.
20. Court case that struck down the state's financial system as unconstitutional.

1. Took funds from wealthy districts and redistributed the money to the poorer districts.
4. Creating smaller schools and smaller districts.
5. Unofficial but highly involved people and groups in a school.
7. Funds directed at specific categories and targeted educational needs.
8. Responsible for overseeing, regulating, and planning school activities, as well as implementing the policies of the board of education.
9. Responsible of formulating educational policy, usually appointed by the governor or otherwise a statewide election.
10. Says that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people."
12. Merging smaller schools and districts into larger ones.
14. Local real estate taxes historically used to fund local schools.
17. Large sums of money given directly to the states with few strings attached.