About __________ of Texas Health and Human Services funding comes from the federal government.
a. 90 percent
b. 60 percent
c. 40 percent
d. 20 percent
e. 5 percent
Q. 2Dillon's rule means that
a. larger cities have less responsibility to its citizens than smaller cities.
b. each state must have an identical number of counties within its borders.
c. municipalities are not required to offer general services whatsoever.
d. a state legislature can make different rules about how various municipalities in a state might function.
Q. 3The Top 10 Percent Rule is intended to address _________ in Texas higher education.
a. equal funding
b. faculty qualifications
c. diversion of funding from academics to sports
d. student diversity
e. faculty diversity
Q. 4Why were many people in Los Angeles outraged with the political institutions of their city when the Rodney King issue surfaced?
a. The mayor of Los Angeles would not fire the police chief.
b. The Los Angeles police chief physically abused an African American motorist but was acquitted of allcharges.
c. The Los Angeles charter did not allow the relatively weak mayor to remove the police chief.
d. Rodney King was fired by the police chief for playing solitaire on his office computer without being issued anyprior warnings.
Q. 5Average full-time public college and university faculty salaries are __________ the national average.
a. significantly below
b. slightly below
c. about equal to
d. slightly above
e. significantly above
Q. 6Mayors have varying degrees of executive power. Which of the following mayors has the least leeway in firing city employees?
a. Los Angeles
b. New York
c. St. Petersburg
d. Baltimore
Q. 7Most community college students are enrolled in
a. technical programs.
b. special education programs.
c. continuing education programs.
d. transferrable academic programs.
e. adult education programs.
Q. 8Which of the following is NOT true regarding budgeting rules?
a. Some balanced budget rules have weak provisions for enforcement.
b. Tough budgeting rules do not prevent deficits when they are combined with limits on government borrowing.
c. Rules that simply require a budget to be balanced may be less effective than rules that require a budget to bebalanced at the end of the fiscal year.
d. Some budgeting rules regulating long-term capital borrowing do not necessarily lead to less state indebtedness.
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