Chapter 12 : Public Policy Texas Government

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Policy Making Process Steps

Back 1

Problem Identification

Policy Formulation

Implementation

Evaluation

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Problem Identification

Back 2

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

Back 3

General ideas become clarified and strategies for declining with these specially defined problems are developed

Ex) Institutional Agenda - Settings

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Implementation

Back 4

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

Back 5

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

Back 6

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

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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

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Supplemental security income

National welfare program passed in 71'

provides assistance to low income elderly or disabled individuals

Replaced the federal state programs
that offered assistance to the blind

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Medicaid

Back 9

Provides health care of poor ppl
and it's a costly program for the state

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PPACA

Back 10

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

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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

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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

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Established a framework for education policy in TX

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Desegregation

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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

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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

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Whether funding public schools through local property taxes fulfilled the TX state constitution's provisions

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Equal Protection Clause

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Part of the 14th Amendment

No State shall deny to any person within it's jurisdiction

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State Board of Education

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A board of directors of trustees of a school

Local schools districts or higher administrative level

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TX Education Agency

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A branch of the state gov. of Texas in the US responsible for public education