Which of these is not true of education in Texas?
a. Local Independent School Boards hire teachers, build school buildings, and make judgments about allocations of resources in their own local areas.
b. The state of Texas has a State Board of Education that makes broad decisions about what is required to gain an education in Texas and to graduate from a Texas high school.
c. The single
largest area of the state budget is education.
d. Local governments in Texas pay for the largest share of the costs of education in the state.
e. Spending large amounts of funds at the state and local levels has resulted in Texas having one of the best-funded education systems in the country.
e
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Machiavelli is associated with the concept of __________
A) culture B) sovereignty C) rationality D) power
What is meant by "delegated congressional power"?
A) Congress delegates limited powers of lawmaking to the president. B) Congress chooses how it wishes to enforce particular laws and states decide whether to support these decisions. C) Congress surrenders its lawmaking powers to the state legislatures. D) Through vague legislation, Congress effectively transfers the power to make laws to agencies. E) The Supreme Court takes the authority to make laws from Congress and delegates it instead to the agencies.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Pearson’s r is appropriate to use when the relationship between two interval level variables is not linear. 2. If one variable has a lower level of measurement, you chose the measure of association that is appropriate for the variable with the higher level of measurement. 3. All measures of association fall between the range of 0 and 1. 4. When calculating Pearson’s r, either variable can be identified as the dependent variable. 5. A discordant pair is one in which two cases give evidence of a positive relationship.
How did the Federalists react when they were defeated by Thomas Jefferson in 1800?
a. They proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would weaken Jefferson's role. b. They tried to retain power through the judiciary by packing it with their appointees. c. They were not concerned, as they still had control of both houses of Congress. d. They applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to prevent Jefferson from being inaugurated.