Public Policy - Property Taxes and School Funding

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EXAMPLE OUTLINE FOR EDUCATIONAL POLICY ISSUE PAPER

A written outline example has been provided for you below. The minimum required information for your outline is as follows:

a. The Policy Issue: i. What is the policy issue?

ii. How was the policy issue defined and by whom? To what extent was the national policy environment and/or state policy environment important? A written outline example has been provided for you below. The minimum required information for your outline is as follows:

a. The Policy Issue: iii. What is the Policy issue? iv. How was the policy issue defined and by whom? v. To what extent was the national policy environment and/or state policy

environment important? vi. What policy actors are interested in the issue and what different positions

do they take? b. The Development of the Issue

vii. Why was the policy environment conducive to the development of interest in your issue?

viii. To what extent was the national policy environment and/or state policy environment important?

c. Implications: ix. Based on the current balance of power, what do you think will happen? x. What are the long term implications for the organization?

d. Summary: xi. One page summarization of the whole paper (details not required as part

of outline assignment) e. Reflection:

xii. One page reflection on your own values and philosophy or ideology, how would you critique the definition(s) of the issue which seems to have prevailed? (details not required as part of outline assignment)

f. References: xiii. List of references to be used xiv. xv. What policy actors are interested in the issue and what different positions

do they take? g. The Development of the Issue

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xvi. Why was the policy environment conducive to the development of interest in your issue?

xvii. To what extent was the national policy environment and/or state policy environment important?

h. Implications: xviii. Based on the current balance of power, what do you think will happen?

xix. What are the long term implications for the organization? i. Summary:

xx. One page summarization of the whole paper (details not required as part of outline assignment)

j. Reflection: xxi. One page reflection on your own values and philosophy or ideology, how

would you critique the definition(s) of the issue which seems to have prevailed? (details not required as part of outline assignment)

k. References: xxii. List of references to be used