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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 | Accountability |
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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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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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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--Common Core/National Tests |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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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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| Brain Research |
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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 |
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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--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Class Size |
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| Counseling/Guidance |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Computer Science |
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| Curriculum--Drivers 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--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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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Economic/Workforce Development--Value of an Education |
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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--Bonds |
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 | Finance--District |
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2013 | P-12 | Proceeds from Sale of Surplus Real Property (education finance omnibus)
A.B. 86 - Proceeds from Sale of Surplus Real Property
From bill summary: Extends to January 2016 provisions (previously scheduled to expire January 2014) authorizing a school district to deposit the proceeds from the sale of surplus real property, together with any personal property located on that property, purc...
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2013 | P-12 | Appointed Trustee for Insolvent District (education finance omnibus)
A.B. 86 - Appointed Trustee for Insolvent District
From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to appoint a trustee with the powers and responsibilities of an administrator when a school district becomes insolvent and requires an emergency apportionment from the state. http://www.leg...
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2013 | P-12 | District Advance of Apportionments (education finance omnibus)
A.B. 86 - District Advance of Apportionments
From bill summary: Existing law authorizes a school district to receive an advance of apportionments owed to the school district by the State School Fund in accordance with specified procedures and requirements. This bill specifies that a school district to is...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2013 | P-12 | Special Meetings
H.B. 269
Authorizes a school district to conduct a special meeting necessitated by changes in adequate education funding.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2013/HB0269.pdf....
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2013 | P-12
Postsec. | Assistance to Districts in Financial Recovery or Financial Watch Status
H.B. 1141 - Sec. 2510.3
Budget bill with many provisions. Of note: Adds new section (2510.3) authorizing the state department to provide assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status. Authorizes the department to u...
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | K-12 Education Budget Adjustments
H.B. 2003
Caps District Additional Assistance at $5,000,000. Increases Charter Additional Assistance by 1.8%. Repeals the Early Graduation Scholarship Program. Revises the definition of accommodation school and amends language for computing state aid to accommodation sc...
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Joint Technical Education District Funding
H.B. 2499
Requires the average daily membership (ADM) for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students enrolled at a centralized campus that is leased by a Joint Technical Education District (JTED) and that is at least 2.5 hours long to be calculated to be increased from 1.25 to...
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Kindergarten
S.B. 1447
Provides that a school district or charter school is not eligible to receive basic state aid for pupils that had not reached five years of age before September 1 of the current school year and who repeats kindergarten in the following school year. Allows scho...
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | District Transfer of Funds
H.B. 3
Extends the time period during which a district other than the Chicago school district may transfer moneys from specified funds for any purpose from June 30, 2013 to June 30, 2016. Extends through June 30, 2016 authority for for a district other than the Chica...
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| KS | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Amends Kansas Uniform Financial Accounting and Reporting Act
S.B. 171
SB 171 amends the Kansas Uniform Financial Accounting and Reporting Act. Requires each school district and the Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) to report on their respective websites the budget summary for the current school year, as well as actual expend...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | K-12 Students Holding Certain U.S. Student Visas
S.B. 453
From fiscal note: Makes provisions for students who are required to pay tuition to a district or charter school as a condition of a visa. Requires the district or charter to accept as tuition the full unsubsidized per capita cost of providing the student's edu...
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Education Funding
Act 60 (H.B. 538)
Lowers the excess spending threshold from 125% of the prior year's statewide average per-pupil spending to 123% in fiscal years 2015 and 2016 and then to 121% in fiscal year 2017 and after. It also limits the amount of money a sending school district pays for...
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Administrative Expenditures
HF 454 - Section 273.13
Prohibits an area education agency's or a district's general fund from exceeding five percent of its general fund.
http://coolice.legis.iowa.gov/linc/85/external/govbills/HF454.pdf...
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| IL | Passed 05/2013 | P-12 | Proposed School Closings in Chicago
H.R. 361
Urges the Chicago Public Schools to provide certain information to families affected by proposed school closings and to the General Assembly before final action is taken. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/HR/PDF/09800HR0361lv.pdf...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Increases Funding to Schools
H.P. 459
Phases out a provision that has allowed some school administrative units (SAU's) to raise less than the required local contribution of the total cost of essential programs and services and not have the state share reduced. In any fiscal year in which the sum o...
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Rapid Enrollment Growth Grants.
H.B. 1261
Provides for an appropriation for school district rapid enrollment growth grants.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/63-2013/documents/13-0434-04000.pdf...
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| OK | Vetoed 05/2013 | P-12 | Allowable Carryover for General Fund Balances
H.B. 1742
Changes the categories and general fund balance carryover allowable percentages. School districts with general funds of between $0 and $5,999,999 not have a fund balance of more than 40 percent of the general fund. Districts with $6 million or more in their ge...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | District Property Sales
S.J.R. 10
Enables trustees of a school district who do not currently have the authority to do so, to sell or lease school property, real or personal, in the school district at any time they deem it expedient to do so and apply the proceeds of the sale or lease to the sc...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12
Postsec. | Pilot Outcome-based Funding
S.B. 1293
AN ACT prescribing a simulated pilot program for outcome-based funding of schools. Creates a competitive application process where districts and charter schools would apply on an annual basis by January 1 and the State Board of Education select recipients by M...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Staff Allowance and Paying Other Schools for Instructional Services
H.B. 275
Allows a district to utilize up to 15% of certain moneys to pay another school district or public charter school for certain services or to defray certain costs and to provide that a district may employ 9.5% fewer positions than funded without a reduction in t...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Annual District Efficiency Audits
H.B. 2349
Requires the Legislative Division of Post Audit to conduct three school district efficiency audits each fiscal year.
http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2349_enrolled.pdf...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | School District Financial Procedures and Task Force to Study Teacher Attrition and Retention
S.B. 2138
Mandates state board of education to promulgate rules and regulations regarding school financial reports required to be submitted to the superintendent of the local school board. Amends existing law so that a task force to study strategies for solving the curr...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Technology Acquisition and Depreciation Funding
S.B. 199
Revises laws related to technology acquisition and depreciation funding. Clarifies that cloud computing services for technology infrastructure, platform, software, network, storage, security, data, database, test environment, curriculum, or desktop virtualizat...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Reimbursement for Boarding Care Costs
H.B. 1301
From the fiscal note: Section 1 allows a school district to be reimbursed from state funds the excess education and related costs for students voluntarily placed in licensed child care facilities located within their resident school district. Previously a scho...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Monthly Payment of Wages
H.B. 1757
Adds school district employees and technology center school district employees to the list of employees that every employer must pay monthly; authorizes certain school district boards to pay support employees on a monthly basis.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok...
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| UT | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Financial Transparency in Education
S.B. 128
Directs districts and charter schools, when submitting public financial information to the Utah Public Finance Website, classify transactions in accordance with the uniform chart of accounts that districts and charter schools are required to use for budgeting,...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | District Consolidation; Sale of Real Property
H.B. 1310
Establishes procedures for use, sale of school buildings in consolidated districts. Provides that districts must provide space to publicly-supported postsecondary institutions, not-for-profit organization, local municipality, or county if real property not sol...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | Enrollment of Nonresident Child of District Employee
H.B. 182
Permits SEEK funding to be distributed to a school that enrolls a nonresident pupil who attends a district in which the pupil's parent is employed. Permits all tuition fees required of a nonresident pupil to be waived for such a pupil. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/re...
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2013 | Postsec. | College District Bonds for Hard and Softward
S.B. 39
From bill analysis: Amends the college district tax act to allow college district boards to borrow money for real property improvements and the purchase of grounds exclusive to stadiums and purchase and installation of computer hardware or software with a usef...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | Assignment of District Staff
H.B. 2066/S.B. 1172
Permits districts that employ a sufficient number of librarians, guidance counselors, and school-based clerical personnel to meet the staffing requirements prescribed in Standard 2 of the Standards of Quality to assign librarians, guidance counselors, and scho...
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| MT | Signed into law 02/2013 | P-12 | Investment of Extracurricular Funds Cash
S.B. 32
Allows trustees to receive and expend extracurricular money collected, invest any excess money in the extracurricular fund and
for pupil extracurricular functions, credit such funds to a general operating account within the fund to be used to offset expenses ...
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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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--Regional Entities |
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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--Credit Recovery |
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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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| 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--Teaching Across Disciplines |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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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--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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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--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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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 English Language Learners (ELL) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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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 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Public/Private Partnerships |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| P-3 Technology |
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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 Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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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 Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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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 Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
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| Postsecondary Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
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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--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--Low-Income |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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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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| Proficiency-Based Approaches |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Remediation (K-12) |
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| Rural |
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| Scale-Up/Replication |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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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--Year |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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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--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--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Service-Learning |
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| Social/Emotional Learning and Non-Cognitive Skills |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
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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--Migrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Military |
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Common Core State 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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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--K-12 Exchange Students |
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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--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--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--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 Contracts (Not Tenure) |
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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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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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