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A-G Courses
Academic Performance Index (API)
Accommodations
Account Code
Accountability
Achievement Gap
Achievement Test
Acronyms
ACT
Actuals
Adequacy
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Adult Education
Advanced Placement (AP) program and AP exams
Agency Acronyms
Alignment
Alternative Assessments
Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAOs)
Annual Measurable Objective (AMO)
Apportionments
Appropriations
Assembly Bill (AB) 1200
Assessment
Assessment of Applied Academic Skills
Assessments in Career Education (ACE)
Average Class Size
Average Daily Attendance (ADA)
Basic Aid
Basic Aid School District
Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program (BTSA)
Benchmark
Benefit Assessment District
Bilingual Education
Bilingualism
Block Grant
Bond Interest and Redemption Fund
Bond Measure
Bonus/Performance Pay
Budget Act
Building Fund
Cafeteria Fund
California Achievement Tests, Sixth Edition Survey (CAT/6)
California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA)
California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS)
California Code of Regulations (CCR)
California Department of Education (CDE)
California Department of Education (CDE)
California Education Code
California English Language Development Test (CELDT)
California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE)
California Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data Education System (CALTIDES)
California Modified Assessment (CMA)
California Physical Fitness Test
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
California Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS)
California School Information Services (CSIS)
California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP)
California Standards Tests (CSTs)
California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS)
California State University (CSU) System
California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS)
Capital Outlay
Career Tech Education
Categorical Aid/Categorical Programs
CBEST
Certificated/Credentialed Employees
Charter School
Charter Schools Program (CSP)
Choice
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Class Size Reduction (CSR)
Classified Employees
Collective Bargaining
Community College
Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program (CSRD)
Con App (Consolidated Application)
Consolidated Application
Consolidation
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Content Standards
Core Academic Standards
Corrective Action
Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)
County Office of Education (COE)
Credentialing/Teacher Preparation
Criterion-Referenced Test
Curriculum
Curriculum Frameworks
Debt Service
Deferred Maintenance
Deficit Factor
Developer Fees
Direct Services
Direct Support Costs
Direct-Funded Charter Schools
Disaggregated Data
District Governing Board
Dropout
Dropout Rate
Early Assessment Program (EAP)
Economic Impact Aid (EIA)
Education Article
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Eligibility in the Local Context
Emergency Permit
Encroachment
English Language Acquisition Program (ELAP)
English Language and Intensive Literacy Program (ELILP)
English Language Learner (ELL)
English Learner (EL)
English Mainstreaming
Enrollment
Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
Equalization Aid
Equity
Exceptional Needs
Expenditures Per Pupil
Fair
Federal Stimulus
Fees on New Development
Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT)
Fluent English Proficient (FEP)
Formative Assessment
Free/Reduced Price Meals
Funding Adequacy
Gann Limit
General Fund
General Obligation Bonds (G.O. Bonds)
General Purpose Funding
Gifted and Talented Education Program (GATE)
Golden State Exams (GSE)
Graduation Rate
Healthy Start
High Priority Schools Grant Program (HPSGP)
High School Exit Exam (HSEE)
High-stakes tests
Highly Qualified Teacher
Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program (II/USP)
Impact Aid
Implicit Price Deflator
Inclusion
Indirect Costs
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Inflation Factor
Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program
International Baccalaureate (IB) Program and Examinations
Intervention Programs
Invest in Innovation Fund
J-200, J-380
J-90
Joint Powers Agreement (JPA)
Joint School Districts
K-12
K-14
K–16
Large-Scale Assessments
Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO)
Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
Local Education Agency (LEA)
Local Miscellaneous Revenues
Locally-Funded Charter Schools
Longitudinal Data
Lottery
Mainstreaming
Maintenance Assessment District
Mandated Costs
Master Plan for Higher Education
Master Plan for K-16 Education
Master Plan for Special Education (MPSE)
Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program
Mello-Roos Community Facility District
Migrant Education
Multiple Measures
Multiple Subject Teaching Credential
Multitrack, Year-round Education (MTYRE)
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
National Board Certification
National School Lunch Program
Nationally Administered Tests
Nationally Normed Assessment
NCLB Title I
NCLB Title II
NCLB Title III
NCLB Title IV
NCLB Title IX
NCLB Title V
NCLB Title VI
NCLB Title VII
NCLB Title VIII
NCLB Title X
Necessary Small Schools
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
Norm-Referenced Assessment
Object Codes
Office of Public School Construction (OPSC)
Opportunity To Learn (OTL)
Other Outgo
Parcel Tax
Parent/School Compact
Per Capita Personal Income
Percentile Ranks
Performance Assessment
Performance Incentive
Performance Standards
PL 81-874 (Public Law 81-874)
PL 94-142 (Public Law 94-142)
Portfolio Assessment
Position Control
Preliminary Credential
Principal Apportionment
Principal Training Program
Professional Clear Credential
Professional Development
Proficiency
Program Improvement
Property Tax
Proposition 13
Proposition 39 (2000)
Proposition 49
Propositions 98 and 111
Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS)
Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)
Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA)
Pupil Weighting
Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA)
Race to the Top (RTT)
Raw Score
Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA)
Regional Occupational Center/Regional Occupational Program (ROC/ROP)
Regional Occupational Centers and Programs (ROCPs)
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504)
Reliable
Reserves
Restricted/Unrestricted
Retention
Revenue Limit
Revenues Per Pupil
Sampling
SAT
SAT-9
Scaled Score
School Accountability Report Card (SARC)
School Assistance and Intervention Team (SAIT)
School Board
School District
School Facility Improvement District (SFID)
School Foundation
School Improvement Program (SIP)
School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA)
School Site Council
Schoolwide Programs
Scientifically Based Research
Scope of Bargaining
Section 504
Seniority
Serrano Band
Serrano v. Priest
Sheltered English Immersion
Shortfall
Significant Subgroup
Single Plan for Student Achievement
Single Subject Credential
Single-Purpose Grants
Small Districts
Social Promotion
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
Special Education
Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA)
Specialist Credential
Split Roll
Standardized Account Code Structure (SACS)
Standardized Test
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program
Standards
Standards-Based Reform
Standards-based Tests in Spanish (STS)
Stanford-9 (SAT-9)
State Allocation Board (SAB)
State Board of Education (SBE)
State Education Agency (SEA)
State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF)
State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI)
State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS)
Statewide Educator Identifier (SEID)
Statewide Student Identifier (SSID)
STEM
Sunsetting
Supplemental Grants
Supplemental Services (under NCLB)
Systemic Reform
Targeted Assistance Programs (TAPs)
Teacher Incentive Fund
Teacher Peer Assistance and Review Program (PAR)
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants
Teaching as a Priority (TAP)
Tenure
TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study)
TRANs (Tax Revenue Anticipation Notes)
Transitional Bilingual Education
Tuition Tax Credit
Unification
Unionization
University of California (UC) System
Valid
Value-added systems of accountability
Voucher
Waiver
Williams v. California



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