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An Analysis of the Role of the State Legislature in Prescribing the Curriculum
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An Attempt to Identify Selected Legal Responsibilities in Off-Campus Student Teaching
… authority for the public schools rests with the state legislature, the state legislature or its delegated agent must be the agency of action and implementation.
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How the green guys won : interest group strategies & the California Clean Cars Legislation
In July of 2002, the California State Legislature passed the "California Clean Cars Bill," the first law in the United States to regulate carbon dioxide as a vehicular pollutant. California's vehicular standards have implications across the country; at least eight other states have committed to …
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Mississippi Redistricting 1977-1980
… of the 1977-78 redistricting of the Mississippi State Legislature. It was a process that saw the culmination of a struggle between the civil rights forces and the "Establishment" in Mississippi, but its origins span almost the entire period of the "reapportionment revolution" in the United …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… of African- Americans competing for and holding state legislative offices has increased significantly. Their growth is most notable in southern state legislatures. A growing number of studies have been devoted to African-Americans in these state legislatures. Absent from previous studies is a …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… of African- Americans competing for and holding state legislative offices has increased significantly. Their growth is most notable in southern state legislatures. A growing number of studies have been devoted to African-Americans in these state legislatures. Absent from previous studies is a …
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"Down with the landlords" : tenant activism in New York City, 1917-1920
In 1920, the state of New York enacted the first rent control laws in the nation. Leading up to these laws were three years of tenant agitation and activism during a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. Tenants worked collectively, employed the techniques of labor unions, and lobbied their …
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A case study evaluation of the individual or instructional leadership component of the Clinical Strand of the Illinois Administrators' academy during its first year of implementation, 1988-1989
The Illinois state legislature passed an extensive educational reform bill in 1985, resulting in many innovative programs to promote quality in education. One of these new programs, the Clinical Strand, the fourth component of the Administrators' Academy, provides participating principals a …
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From Soft-Sell to Hardball: The Evolution of thePro-Equal Rights Amendment Campaign In South Carolina, 1972-1982
… may not be particularly surprising based on the state's conservative record on women's rights. Historians have not thoroughly studied this state's involvement with the modern women's movement in their analysis of why the amendment did not pass in the United States. But South Carolina did have a …
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Professionalism, institutionalization and committee services in US. state legislatures
… in the committee systems of six U.S. states. I examine whether increased professionalization, as defined by increases in levels of member salary, legislative staffing, and time in session, causes legislatures to institutionalize in a manner similar to the U.S. Congress. Specifically, …
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"Behind Closed Doors": Identity and Influence in State-Level Legislative Decision-Making on School Discipline
This thesis critically examines state-level legislative decision-making in Virginia, New York, and Texas, with a particular focus on school discipline reform. Specifically, it explores the extent to which the race and gender of state legislators correlate with policy decisions concerning …
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The Tobin Bridge : its history and politics
… to build one, and also could not convince the state of Massachusetts or the city of Boston to finance a new bridge. In 1946, the state legislature created the Mystic River Bridge Authority, a public authority which built a high-level bridge by issuing bonds whose repayment was based upon …
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Dynamic responsiveness in the American states : legislators, constituents, and organized interests
… assesses repositioning among members of the state legislature. Did they respond when redistricting led to changes in the policy ideology of their districts? The result speaks to the kind of representation that constituents receive-and the obstacles facing would-be reformers. The paper is the …
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The rise and fall of open market emissions trading in New Jersey
… directives and simultaneously move the state towards the attainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), this program is now slated for termination following scrutiny from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), environmental groups and a new NJDEP …
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A survey of state laws and regulations regarding corporal punishment in the public schools
… purpose of this study (1) to determine how many states have laws relating to corporal punishment in the public schools; (2) to ascertain the number of states having specific provisions in their education code relating to corporal punishment; (3) to determine the authority which authorizes or …
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We live here : tenants and the Massachusetts Public Housing Reform debate
… debate about governance and efficiency in the state-funded public housing system. Governor Patrick, state agency heads, public and affordable housing professionals and experts and tenant advocates debated the degree to which the system should be centralized. Eventually, this debate was framed …
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Perceptions of Borough Incorporation Held by Community Leaders in Delta Junction, Alaska
… exist in an overwhelming majority of the United States and are often considered a necessary and natural progression of a developing region. Alaska offers a unique opportunity to explore perceptions of regional incorporation, as it is the only remaining state in the Union to have unincorporated …
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Perceptions of Borough Incorporation Held by Community Leaders in Delta Junction, Alaska
… exist in an overwhelming majority of the United States and are often considered a necessary and natural progression of a developing region. Alaska offers a unique opportunity to explore perceptions of regional incorporation, as it is the only remaining state in the Union to have unincorporated …
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A Cleave within the Piney Woods: Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University and How Racial Integration Divided the Town and Gown
<p>Stephen F. Austin State University was once the pride and joy of the city of Nacogdoches, Texas. When the Texas State Legislature began to look for a location for their new state normal school, the people of the East Texas town fought to have it built there and the Stephen F. Austin Teacher’s …
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Strainer: State Transcript Rating for Informed News Entity Retrieval
… has been a rapid decline in public oversight of state and local governments. From 2003 to 2014, the number of journalists assigned to cover the proceedings in state houses has declined by more than 30\%. During the same time period, non-profit projects such as Digital Democracy sought to collect …
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