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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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 | Accountability--Rewards |
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Creates a pilot Academic Achievement Awards program, which would use federal stimulus funds to make financial awards to schools that significantly close the achievement gap and schools that exceed their adequate yearly progress for two or more consecutive years. The awards are focused on schools that have high percentages of economically disadvantaged students.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+151/$file/legis.html?open
Title: S.B. 151
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Adds national board-certified teachers as a group of educators eligible to be awarded stipends for improved student achievement through the educator excellence awards program. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00709F.pdf
Title: H.B. 709
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Section 11: Provides that the educator excellence fund will be annually funded by an amount determined by legislative appropriation, rather than by $1,000 per teacher. Eliminates reference in 21.703(a) to awards for student achievement program. Bill also repeals Subchapter N, Chapter 21 of the Education Code, "Awards for Student Achievement Program" and Section 21.704(b) authorizing the district-level committee to use a campus incentive plan as part of a local awards plan.
Section 12: Adds language that a local awards plan under the educator excellence awards program must provide for teachers and principals eligible to receive awards to be notified of the specific criteria and any formulas on which the awards will be based before the beginning of the period on which the awards will be based.
Section 13: Adds principals to school staff eligible for award payments for improving student achievement under the educator excellence awards program. Clarifies that one use of award funds may be providing teacher induction and mentoring support, including stipends to effective mentors or teacher coaches. Clarifies that stipends to successful teachers at hard-to-staff schools are for purposes of recruiting and retaining teachers, and makes principals who are successful for improving student performance eligible for stipends at such hard-to-staff schools. Eliminates provision allowing award payments to go to teacher stipends for teachers holding postgraduate degrees; eliminates provision allowing award payments to go to principals generally who effectively increase student performance as determined by objective measures. Allows award funding to be used to provide funding for previously developed incentive programs.
Section 14: Eliminates references in 21.706(a) to awards for student achievement program and educator excellence awards program.
Pages 8-12 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 11-14
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Establishes new Subchapter G, "Distinction Designations". Directs the commissioner at the beginning of each school year to award distinction designations to districts and campuses. Directs the commissioner by rule to establish a recognized and exemplary rating for awarding districts and campuses an academic distinction designation. Requires the commissioner's rule to include criteria for the ratings, including percentages of students who demonstrate college readiness on specified end-of-course assessments, or other factors indicating students' postsecondary readiness. Requires a campus to be awarded a distinction designation if the campus is in the top 25% of campuses statewide in annual improvement in student achievement as determined under Section 39.034. Additionally requires a campus to be awarded a distinction designation if the campus significantly diminishes or eliminates performance differentials between student subpopulations and is ranked in the top 25% of campuses statewide in annual improvement in student achievement. Directs the commissioner to adopt rules to ensure that a campus does not artificially diminish or eliminate performance differentials by inhibiting the achievement of the highest achieving student subpopulation.
Additionally provides that a campus that satisfies the criteria established in new Section 39.204 must be awarded a distinction designation for programs/categories of performance, namely (1) academic achievement in English language arts, math, science, or social studies; (2) fine arts; (3) physical education; (4) 21st Century Workforce Development program; and (5) second language acquisition program. Establishes 39.204, which directs the commissioner by rule to establish standards for considering campuses for distinction designations and methods for awarding campus distinction designations. Requires establishment of a separate committee to develop criteria for the aforementioned subject area/program-specific distinction designations. Establishes criteria for membership of each such committee, and procedures for each committee to develop criteria for distinction designations. Repeals Section 39.111, "Recognition and Rewards"
Amends 39.263, "Awards." Provides criteria for identifying schools in Texas Successful Schools Awards System must include consideration of performance on the student achievement indicators adopted under Section 39.053(c) and consideration of the distinction designation criteria prescribed by or developed under Subchapter G.
Requires the regional and district level report developed per Section 39.333 to indicate, for each campus granted an exemption from the maximum class size in grades K-3, a statement of whether the campus has been awarded a distinction designation under Subchapter G or has been identified as an unacceptable campus under Subchapter E. Existing language requires the regional and district report to indicate a summary of district waivers granted under Section 7.056 or 39.232; new legislation additionally requires report to provide a summary of school-level exemptions permitted by these Sections.
Requires the first written notice of a student 's performance that a school district gives during a school year to include a statement of whether the campus at which the student is enrolled has been awarded a distinction designation under Subchapter G or has been identified as an unacceptable campus under Subchapter E, and an explanation of the significance of this information.
Pages 125-135, 155-157 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part VI (Distinction Designations and Awards)
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| OK | Vetoed 05/2009 | P-12 | Amends Academic Achievement Award program to allow for more schools to receive awards (was limited to four). Adds and clarifies award levels; directs the State Board of Education to identify school sites for awards; establishes API score requirements for awards; modifies monetary awards for certain categories; provides monetary award amounts.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/HB1575_ENR.RTF
Title: H.B. 1575
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Encourages each local district to develop an Education Pays pilot program for at-risk students to encourage student academic achievement through award of Education Pays rewards. An "Education Pays reward" is a reward of cash or other thing of value given to students or the parent or guardian of a student or both in recognition of academic achievement. Authorizes funding of an Education Pays pilot program through private funds. This bill encourages the state board of education to study the effects of Education Pays rewards in Tennessee and similar programs in other states and report its findings to the education committee of each house of the general assembly.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB0556.pdf
Title: H.B. 556
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB0556.pdf
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Section 501-507 relates to shared accountability for school and district improvement. Legislature recognizes that comprehensive education finance reform and increased investment of public resources necessary to implement that reform must be accompanied by a new mechanism for clearly defining the relationships and expectations for the state, school districts and schools. This will be accomplished through the development of a proactive, collaborative accountability system that focuses on a school improvement system that engages and serves the local school board, parents, students, staff in the school and districts and the community. Improvement system is to be based on progressive levels of support, with a goal of continuous improvement in student achievement and alignment with the federal system of accountability. It is the state's responsibility to provide schools and districts with the tools and resources necessary to improve student achievement. These tools include the necessary accounting and data reporting systems, assessment systems to monitor student achievement, and a system of general support, targeted assistance, recognition and, if necessary state intervention. Legislature has already charged the state board of education with developing criteria to identify schools and districts that are successful, in need of assistance and those where students persistently fail, as well as to identify a range of intervention strategies and a performance incentive system. State board is to develop an accountability index to identify schools and districts for recognition and for additional state support. Index is to be based on criteria that are fair, consistent and transparent. Performance is to be measured using multiple outcomes and indicators including, but not limited to, graduation rates and results from statewide assessments. Proposed system is to outline a process for addressing performance challenges that will include the following features: 1) an academic performance audit using peer review teams of educators that considers school and community factors in addition to other factors in developing recommended specific correction actions that should be undertaken to improve student learning; 2) a requirement for the local school board plan to develop and be responsible for implementation of corrective action plan taking into account the audit findings; and 3) monitoring of local district progress by the office of the superintendent of public instruction. Once the accountability index and state system of support is finalized, the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education will seek approval from the U.S. Department of Education for use of the system in place of the federal accountability system under the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2261-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2261--Section 501-507, Accountability
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Repeals provisions relating to rewards for successful schools. Establishes provisions to recognize schools that would have been rewarded under the former system. Repeals provision directing the state board to develop a formula for a school accountability index.
Requires the state board, after adopting revised academic standards by December 15, 2010 and a revised assessment system for use in the 2011-12 school year, to adopt rules establishing a new accountability system based on the revised standards and assessments. Requires the accountability system to include the results of program assessments of arts and humanities, practical living skills and career studies and writing programs as specified in revised KRS 158.6453 (7)((a) - (c) (revised by 2009 S.B. 1). Directs the state board, before adopting rules relating to the new accountability system, to seek advice from the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council; the Office of Education Accountability; the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee; and the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability. Repeals requirement that student be counted for accountability purposes if the student has been enrolled in the school 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period; replaces with requirement that student be enrolled in a school for at least a full academic year to be counted for accountability purposes. Repeals provisions relating to procedures for school audits.
Repeals provision requiring the department to report quarterly to the interim joint committee on education on (1) information about the estimated error of the accountability index, as well as information about the connections between index score changes and estimated changes in student performance levels and (2) the annual audit of portfolio scores in ways that serve to minimize the differences between teacher-produced scores and audit-generated scores.
Effective with the 2012-13 school year, requires state assessment results to be reported to schools no later than 75 days following the first day the assessment can be administered. Requires local targets for closing the achievement gap and school improvement plans to address those targets to be reported annually by October 1 (former provisions required adoption mid/late school year every other year). Directs the local superintendent to report to the commissioner of education if a school fails to meet its targets to reduce the gap in student achievement for any student group for 2 consecutive years (former provision required reporting after two successive biennia).
Pages 24-31 and 32-35 of 76: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 4, 5 and 7
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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| Instructional Approaches--Time/Time on Task |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| International Benchmarking |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Service-Learning |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Finance |
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| Special Education--Placement |
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| Special Education--Transition |
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| Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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| Special Populations--Foster Care |
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| Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
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| Special Populations--Homeless Education |
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| Special Populations--Immigrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Military |
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| Standards |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| STEM |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Employment |
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| Students--Mobility |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Urban--Governance |
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