A) reduce the number of children in poverty.
B) reduce illegitimacy rates among all affected groups.
C) provide large benefits across the board to lift welfare recipients out of poverty.
D) make families self-sufficient by ending the cycle of dependency on government benefits.
E) coerce the states to be held more accountable for the distribution of the block-grant funding from the federal government.
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A) severe droughts.
B) poverty.
C) crime.
D) environmental degradation.
E) political corruption.
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A) the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
B) President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
C) President Truman's post-World War II reforms.
D) President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs.
E) President Gerald Ford's War on Poverty.
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A) Houston
B) El Paso
C) San Antonio
D) Dallas
E) Austin
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A) the State Board of Education was established and became the policy-making body for public education in Texas.
B) the State Board of Education was abolished for being redundant and in competition with the federal Department of Education.
C) the Religious Antidiscrimination Act was repealed.
D) the State Board of Education members were elected statewide on partisan ballots.
E) Texas instituted an income tax to fund public education.
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A) double the funding for African American integrated schools.
B) desegregate their schools within the next 10 years.
C) desegregate their schools "with all deliberate speed."
D) appoint a commission to study the Texas school system and make recommendations to the governor.
E) redraw school district lines to improve funding for all schools on a more equitable basis.
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A) invalidated state-imposed racial segregation in Texas.
B) validated the election of State Board of Education members.
C) overturned the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case of 1954.
D) was reinforced by Edgewood ISD v. Kirby.
E) validated state-imposed racial segregation in Texas public schools.
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A) The idea of testing to promote academic excellence was not being abandoned completely, but it no longer held center stage for reformers.
B) Students, under certain circumstances, were able to transfer from low-performing schools to high-performing schools in their districts.
C) The implementation of the "No pass, No play" rule was relaxed.
D) The implementation of an additional literacy test for teachers failed to pass.
E) School districts were allowed to drop the algebra II requirement for graduation.
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A) formulation, identification, implementation, and evaluation.
B) problem identification, formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
C) evaluation, identification, formulation, and implementation.
D) problem identification, evaluation, formulation, and implementation.
E) agenda setting, problem identification, formulation, and implementation.
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A) Public policy in Texas is not affected at all by national policy.
B) Public policy in Texas is crippled by national policy, giving Texas very little control.
C) The policies of the national government influence Texas, but, for the most part, large segments of public policy, such as education, infrastructure, and legal matters, are state and local matters.
D) Public policy making is divided equally between the state and federal governments under the concept and theory of federalism.
E) Federalism makes the national government virtually irrelevant to states such as Texas.
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A) Texas agreed with the Supreme Court's decision.
B) Texas would increase funding for Medicaid by borrowing substantial sums of money on Wall Street.
C) the Texas legislature would happily increase taxes to fund the expanded Medicaid program.
D) Texas might not participate in the expanded Medicaid program.
E) President Obama should be impeached.
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A) Gilmer v. Aikin.
B) San Antonio v. Rodriguez.
C) Edgewood ISD v. Kirby.
D) Roe v. Wade.
E) Brown v. Board of Education.
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A) separate but equal doctrine.
B) privileges and immunities clause.
C) hold and save harmless doctrine.
D) supremacy clause.
E) doctrine of eminent domain.
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A) high teacher salaries.
B) the cost of education per pupil.
C) the high incidence of violence in public school classrooms.
D) athletic programs.
E) low college graduation rates.
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A) federal law mandating all aspects of water use in Texas.
B) a complicated system of private property rights.
C) the fact that Texas has no major rivers, lakes, or aquifers.
D) fear that Texas is in a permanent state of drought.
E) fierce competition with Mexico over water rights.
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A) the state owns the water rights because it is sovereign over Texas residents.
B) the federal government has the right to capture water in Texas because of the supremacy clause in the federal Constitution.
C) the first person to capture the water by pumping it out of the ground owns it.
D) the state can capture and tax any business that uses state water without reporting usage statistics to the state water board.
E) only water captured in surface retaining ponds can be owned.
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