After teaching a group of students about Kingdon's streams of policy development, the instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the students identify which of the following as the best example of convergence of Kingdon's "streams?"
A) A local school board president calls for the reinstatement of school nurses in the county after everyone in her child's class contracts head lice with parents unanimously demanding action.
B) A senator introduces a bill based on pressure from a constituent interest group that he knows is unlikely to pass.
C) Despite public outcry, a school principal refuses to change her ruling to dismiss a student from school for reading aloud from a Bible in class.
D) The local mayor decides to give all city officials an extra paid day off in recognition of budget surpluses recorded the prior year.
Ans: A) A local school board president calls for the reinstatement of school nurses in the county after everyone in her child's class contracts head lice with parents unanimously demanding action.
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