Exam 27: Local Governments and Metropolitics

With the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation in 2002, direct state involvement in local ____________ became widespread.

Districts are the largest jurisdictions within a state.

The town meeting forum is most common in the

In 2002, what state took control of one of its city's 200,000-plus school systems after years of poor achievement and budget problems?

At-large elections make it more difficult for minorities to be elected to office, especially when they are concentrated in a few areas.

Towns are also called

About _______ percent of U.S.citizens (252 million people) live in metropolitan areas.

According to the council-manager plan

Approximately half of Americans live in suburban areas.

Resistance to mandatory busing to achieve integrated schools in the 1960s and 1970s contributed to so-called

Our basic pattern of local government is imported from

_____________ has attracted some suburbanites back to the city.

Special districts usually have governing boards appointed by officials of other governments or elected by the general public.

A mayor will often develop a city council plan.

The major tasks of suburban government are often bound together with those of the

Citizens trust local governments to perform their responsibilities more than they do the national government.

The number of people of color serving in city councils across the country has almost doubled in the last two decades.