Chapter 12 Texas Gov

Poverty in Texas is highest in the border counties

True

Place in order

-problem identification

-poly formulation

-implementation

-evaluation

-Among the uninsured Texans, most are latino

-Among the uninsured Texas, most are adults

True

When school districts are funded by local taxes only, the likelihood of disparities in funding goes up

True

Identify the factors that tend to work against rationality and efficiency in the making of public policy

-policy makers and other politically active individuals may not behave rationally or efficiently

-Governments ten to work incrementally

-the policy making process is highly complex

Which were the most important consequences of the 2016 ruling by the supreme court of Texas regarding a lawsuit brought over school funding inequities?

-questions about school funding were made decidedly an issue for the legislative branch to resolve

-state courts removed themselves from the school funding question

If the economy entered a time of recess in the near future, what would be the primary effect on Texas's medicaid program?

growth in benefit claims

-Latino children are more likely to live in poverty and need more support than do children from other groups

-there is a significant need for state supported low-cost or free preventive care programs

-the Texas heath and human services commission likely needs to provide individuals and materials that primarily support both spanish and english speakers

true

which of the following statements about voucher plans are accurate?

-vouchers attach school funding to the student, not the school, and follow the student to whichever school is chosen by parents

-voucher proponents argue that transferrable funding will create positive competition among public, private, and religious schools to improve overall student performance

-voucher critics argue that middle and upper class families will benefit from the programs and leave poor families behind in even more poorly-funded public schools

-slightly more females than males are recipients of medicaid

-seventy seven percent of those on medicaid are age 20 or younger

-most medicaid recipients are african american or latino

true

media coverage of the selma march for voting rights, passage of the voting rights act of 1965, congressional oversight of the implementation of the act, and the review of constitutional challenges to the act by the federal courts are examples of which aspect of policy making?

policy legitimation

states with higher taxes tend to offer more social services such as health care

-texas has a low rate of state taxes as a percentage of income and a high rate of people without health insurance

-texas voters have consistently elected Republicans to state office, and these elected officials have largely enacted a conservative policy agenda

true

in response to public pressure and us supreme court rulings, in 20113, governor rick perry expanded medicaid access with the affordable care act

False

1896 excerpt of the supreme court case plessy v. ferguson intended what effect of reasoning?

to allow states to constitutionally legitimate authority to decide the issue of segregation as they saw

which of the following groups has the highest rate of poverty in texas?

children

how have federal programs affected state and national welfare policies?

-the policies created under the great society further expanded federal funding and welfare programs

-the new deal caused the federal government to be far more involved in welfare programs

-texas had to raise and ultimately rework, its constitutional limit on welfare expenditures

The ____ program is a _____ program that primarily provides medical benefits for women and children living in poverty, while ____ is a _____ program to provide medical benefits for the elderly

medicaid, state-operated, medicare, federally operated

which of the following statements about Teas public schools are accurate?

-texas has one of the largest public school systems in the nation

-the majority of school districts in texas are in small, rural areas

While lawmakers might generally argue that a large infusion of public funds to the public education system along with a dramatic reform of the public structure would optimize the outcomes of student performance in the public education in Texas, they may choose to continue making incremental increases in funding and tweak the funding structure during each session in a practice referred as what?

satisficing

which of the following statements about poverty in Texas are accurate?

-the highest poverty rates in Texas are found in border counties

-poverty rates among nonwhite Texans are higher than among white Texans

-texas uses the federal poverty guidelines for determine eligibility for state programs

the ability of fan individual to understand a problem or its solution may be restricted by which of the following?

-inability to conceptualize

-limited resources

-restricted window for making decisions

As a result of the 1983 national report on the state education, A Nation at Risk, Texas adopted which reforms to address the serious issues that had been identified?

-the legislature established the select committee on public education

-a program was created that tied academic performance to athletic eligibility

-statewide assessments standards were developed

whcih supreme court case reaffirmed a woman's right to abortion services without facing an undue burden imposed by the state of texas?

whole womans health v. hellerstedt

a related program to medicaid is the _____ , which provides medical coverage for children in families with incomes too ___ to qualify for medicaid

children's health insurance program, high

if reduction in program participation is considered the standard of success, then welfare program reforms enacted since the 1990s have largely been successful

true

in 1949, texas passed the gilmer-aikin laws to reform schools in texas. What did these laws help to achieve?

-increased funding for schools

-created the texas education agency

-established a minimum number of teaching days per school year

-established the state board of education as the public education policy making body

the primary groups served the texas health and human services commission include which of the following?

-mothers with children

-elderly

-disabled

The education reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, such as standardized testing, "NO pass, NO play," school ratings, and extended school years, have largely been praised for their success in closing the achievement gap between students with a low socioeconomic status and their better off peers

False

which of the following statements about charter schools are accurate?

-operate according to different rules than other public schools, granting them greater flexibility

-receive public funds form the state but not from local taxes

-divert money away from the traditional public schools that already face significant financial challenges

what are some of the challenges facing educational policy in texas?

-low levels of per-student spending

-high dropout rates

-relatively high levels of economically disadvantaged high risk students

-in major cities, most students are either black or latino

-suburbanization has led to de facto segregation in many texas schools

-white texans are less likely to be enrolled in public schools

true

what were the central issues in the san Antonio v. Rodriguez 1973 case?

-whether or not the texas school finance system violated the us constitutional's equal protection clause

-how texas schools were funded

which of the following are examples of public policy?

-criminal penalties for drunk driving

-regulations that raise the speed limit on texas highways

-operating procedures state agencies develop to implement laws

-laws passed by the legislature that encourage more people to continue their education by offering free tuition at public universities

in the last decade, state legislators have withheld increases in state funding or even justified cuts in funding, that would have maintained the state portion pf per-pupil spending with expectations that district would have funding from what other source?

increased property taxes values

The 1996 personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act, or welfare reform act, combined existing work and cash welfare programs into new programs known as ____ that provided ____ to states that encouraged innovation in reducing welfare participation and offered states more flexibility on eligibility requirments

temporary assistance for needy families, block grants

which of the following are arguments critics make against charter schools?

-can overlook the neediest students

-divert too much funding from public schools

a policy solution to an issue that is considered to be optimal would be one in which what occurs?

the greatest results occur with the least resources being commited

Most insurance comes from what in texas? largest to smalles

-employer

-government sponsored programs

-uninsured

-private

as a consequence of the supreme court case plessy v. ferguson , texas maintained segregated schools but ensured that all school received equal funding

false

Imagine that you are a lawmaker on the texas house appropriations committee who is faced with filling a structural deficit found in the state's budget for the next biennium. because of a lac of staff and office resources as well as the time crunch of the legislative session, you and the rest of the committee address the issue by cutting spending in state programs rather than finding a solution to the structural deficit. You and the other decision makers have just used which strategy?

bounded rationality

-close to half of all texans receive their health insurance from their employer

-there are about as many uninsured texans as there are texans on medicaid

true

which of the following are ways in which public schools in texas are funded?

-property taxes

-federal funds

-general revenue funds

in the terms of texas constitutional provisions on education, the democratic state supreme court of the 1980s focused on _____, while the republicans court of 2016 focused on ____

fairness and efficiency/ general diffusion of knowledge

which of the following are criticisms of the use of standardized testing?

-heavy emphasis on test scores led to the instruction focused on getting the right answers instead of building knowledge

-increased testing takes away from time spent on classroom instruction

-standardized tests are over-emphasized as a tool for assessing student achievement