Unit 4
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| show | sheriff.
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| show | administering water districts
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| In Texas, who creates special districts? | show 🗑
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| What is the main difference between a home-rule city and a general-law city? | show 🗑
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| The most important social service provided by counties is | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements about counties in Texas is incorrect? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements about the commissioner form of government is false? | show 🗑
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| show | auditor
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| Which of the following is not provided by a special district? | show 🗑
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| In the case Avery v. Midland County, the U.S. Supreme Court held that | show 🗑
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| The job of serving legal papers at the precinct level of a county goes to the ______. | show 🗑
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| What is a key problem with counties in Texas? | show 🗑
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| What is the function of the twenty-four councils of government in Texas today? | show 🗑
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| A school district is | show 🗑
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| show | flooding is seldom contained in a single city or county.
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| show | A special district provides only one specific service within a geographic region.
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| What is an at-large election? | show 🗑
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| What is the level of popularity of the commissioner system of city government in Texas today? | show 🗑
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| What type of government is called hidden government because people often do not know it exists? | show 🗑
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| Dallas operates under which form of city government? | show 🗑
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| show | in 1918, during the Progressive era.
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| show | flood control.
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| A home-rule charter | show 🗑
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| Which of the following cities currently has a city government with a strong mayor-council form of government? | show 🗑
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| Why are Texas counties important? | show 🗑
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| What are the main sources of revenue for special districts in Texas? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not a key difference between the mayor-council and the council-manager forms of local government? | show 🗑
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| In Texas, what is the name of the officer who presides over the county commissioners court? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is the most common form of local government in Texas? | show 🗑
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| The mayor-council form of government is most common in | show 🗑
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| show | They are run by a board elected by residents within the district.
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| School boards can do all of the following EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| The Permanent School Fund (PSF) was created in | show 🗑
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| show | market price and the amount produced
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| show | Rainy Day Fund
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| show | It is required by the Texas Constitution.
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| show | increasing health care costs due to recent efforts to reform the health care system.
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| ()( What is the argument commonly used by supporters of a state income tax? | show 🗑
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| The process of drafting a bill is referred to as | show 🗑
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| show | The lottery is played by large numbers of people from all social classes.
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| show | not about even with the national average.
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| show | not Texas has high income tax and high sales tax.
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| show | not wealthy homeowners and renters
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| )()Texas spending on a per capita basis is | show 🗑
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| show | not between $24 and $27 billion.
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| show | not are too insignificant to be included in the state budgetary process.
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| show | not excise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes
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| show | not based on the tax rate for school districts.
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| )()In theory, Texas has a dual-budget system, meaning the budget authority is shared by the governor and the legislature; however, in practice, the primary player(s) in the budget is/are | show 🗑
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| ()(Next to revenue generated by state taxes, the second largest source of state revenue comes from | show 🗑
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| show | low interest rates and loose credit standards
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| () If Texas instituted a progressive income tax | show 🗑
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| The Permanent University Fund (PUF) was established in 1876 with a land grant of 1 million acres. It contributes to the support of | show 🗑
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| Which statement concerning matching funds in Texas is true? | show 🗑
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| show | The legislative session was particularly difficult because the Great Recession had significantly reduced state revenue.
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| The Legislative Budget Board (LBB) is chaired by the | show 🗑
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| show | the comptroller
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| show | universities seeking to achieve national prominence as research institutions.
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| show | the state legislature.
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| When compared to the rest of the nation, the real estate collapse in Texas was | show 🗑
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| Following a legislative decision in 2003 to reduce state funding to higher education, which source of university revenue began to increase most rapidly? | show 🗑
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| show | provide a detailed forecast of total revenues that the state is expected to take in.
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| According to the text, just as the economy began to improve and state revenues started increasing, a new threat arose to threaten the newly balanced budget. It was the | show 🗑
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| show | Texas spends less on state-federal programs than most states do.
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| show | The legislative session was particularly difficult because the Great Recession had significantly reduced state revenue.
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| ______ monitors state agencies to ensure that they comply with the state budget. | show 🗑
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| Texas spending on a per capita basis is | show 🗑
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| The Texas Constitution specifies that state payments for assistance to needy children and their caretakers shall not exceed ______ percent of the states’ budget in any biennium. | show 🗑
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| Which phrase best characterizes Texas’s reputation in terms of taxes and services? | show 🗑
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| show | the constitutional mandate that Texas legislators write a budget every two years.
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| show | the comptroller
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| show | the Texas comptroller
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| Federal money for Medicaid programs | show 🗑
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| show | various bureaucratic institutions were established to be responsible for public education in the state of Texas.
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| show | Texas leads the nation in the percentage of residents who lack health insurance coverage.
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| show | were helping to create a dysfunctional underclass of people who depended upon it for survival.
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| One important consequence of the “law of capture” concept is that it | show 🗑
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| Ross Perot was appointed by Governor Mark White to chair a committee on education. As committee chair, he was particularly scornful of | show 🗑
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| In Edgewood ISD v. Kirby, the key constitutional issue was | show 🗑
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| show | lower than
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| The Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act of 2007 | show 🗑
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| The origins of modern welfare policy lie in | show 🗑
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| In the 1960s, welfare policy in Texas reflected | show 🗑
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| show | was still a problem in urban public schools with a large minority population.
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| show | undue reliance upon property taxes to fund public education violated the Texas Constitution.
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| San Antonio v. Rodriguez dealt with the | show 🗑
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| Two of the strategies that have been developed by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to meet the long-term needs of Texas include | show 🗑
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| show | 15 percent.
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| The ______ transformed the way in which the United States handled poverty and implemented welfare policy. | show 🗑
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| show | 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.
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| The single most important issue confronting Texas policy makers with regard to Medicaid is | show 🗑
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| show | is accompanied by federal rules and regulations, which states must comply with to maintain federal funding of the program.
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| show | The highest in the nation
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| show | the Affordable Care Act
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| show | they had the rights to the water based upon their ownership of the land above it.
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| Underlying water policy in Texas is | show 🗑
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| show | A Nation at Risk.
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| The primary purpose of TANF was to | show 🗑
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| In the Brown v. Board of Education case, segregated school districts were ordered to | show 🗑
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| Which statement is true regarding poverty in Texas? | show 🗑
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| Under the Gilmer-Aikin Laws | show 🗑
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| show | encourages landowners to take as much water as possible from groundwater sources.
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| Most of the water in Texas is for | show 🗑
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| In legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court ruled that | show 🗑
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