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  • Starting Out Equal? The Impacts of Child Care Access on Kindergarten Readiness in Oregon

    Creator:
    Hansen, Jeanette
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    Children enter kindergarten on unequal footing. Early childhood experiences shape initial disparities and predict academic achievement and life trajectories. One influence, child care, is not available to all children in Oregon as most counties qualify as child care deserts. This paper analyzes if child care access has an effect on...
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    Capstone Project
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    : ______________________________________________________ Paul N. Thompson Children enter kindergarten on unequal footing. Early childhood experiences

  • Starting Out Equal? The Impacts of Child Care Access on Kindergarten Readiness in Oregon

    Creator:
    Hansen, Jeanette
    Abstract:
    Children enter kindergarten on unequal footing. Early childhood experiences shape initial disparities and predict academic achievement and life trajectories. One influence, child care, is not available to all children in Oregon as most counties qualify as child care deserts. This paper analyzes if child care access has an effect on...
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    Capstone Project
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Paul N. Thompson Children enter

  • K-12 school finance reform : an Idaho case study

    Creator:
    Pratt, Leah
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    There have been years of stalled K-12 school finance reform efforts in Idaho, yet it was unclear what key Idaho education interest groups currently thought about how Idaho funds its public schools. Therefore, this project explored the institutional perspectives and beliefs of K-12 Idaho education stakeholders regarding the Idaho K-12...
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    Capstone Project

  • Environmental Justice Policies at the State Level: Symbolic Rhetoric or Tangible Impacts?

    Creator:
    Kanzig, Erin
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    President Clinton’s Executive Order 12898 and subsequent federal environmental justice (EJ) policies and programs have faced significant challenges in implementation. Exploring scientific uncertainty, social complexity of EJ issues, lack of clear policy guidance, and weak regulatory enforcement demonstrate these challenges. However, at the state level, EJ policies, task forces, and...
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    Capstone Project
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    : Lori A. Cramer, representing Sociology Kelsy N. Kretschmer, representing Sociology

  • "We're not doing it anymore": Analyzing teachers' perceptions of power on their stated decisions to strike

    Creator:
    Sibley, Cody S.
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    The overall reduced funding from public education in the United States has sparked a backlash across the country. Citing inadequate resources, low pay, and an inability to control the direction of their classroom, teachers in seven states (West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, and Washington) halted instruction time...
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    Capstone Project

  • Understanding the Implementation of Oregon's Environmental Justice Statute

    Creator:
    Osipova, Polina
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    The environmental justice (EJ) movement has succeeded in achieving policy change across different levels of government, however, there has been relatively little research to date on the implementation of environmental justice policies at the state level. The state of Oregon provides an opportunity to understand how state-level EJ policies are...
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    Capstone Project
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    Sociology Kelsy N. Kretschmer, representing Sociology Amy Below, representing Political

  • Public vs. Private Prison Violence: An Empirical Study of Inmate-on-staff Assaults

    Creator:
    Theis, Bryan N.
    Abstract:
    Studies on prison violence have typically focused attention at individual level inmate-on-inmate assaults, however, there has been limited research into the rates of inmate-on-staff violence at the facility level. There also appears to be a need for further scholarship relating to the differences in various prison level predictors of inmate...
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    Capstone Project
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    Theis – MPP Essay AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Bryan N

  • Sovereignty Under Arrest? Public Law 280 and its Discontents

    Creator:
    Cline, Sarah N.
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    Law enforcement in Indian Country has been characterized as a “maze of injustice”—one in which offenders too easily escape and victims are too easily lost (Amnesty International, 2007). Tribal, state, and federal governments have recently sought to amend this through the passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA)...
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    Sarah N. Cline

  • Developing a Climate Resilience Scorecard for Marin County, California

    Creator:
    Orr, Ariel N. V.
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    Marin County, located in the northern San Francisco Bay Area in California, faces significant threats due to climate change, including more frequent wildfires, flooding, and increased temperatures. Adaptation and mitigation efforts are necessary in order to promote resilience amidst these changing conditions. Scorecards and similar evaluation tools have previously been...
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    , California by Ariel N. V. Orr A CAPSTONE PROJECT submitted to Oregon

  • Revenue Stability among Education Service Districts during the Great Recession: A Comparison of Oregon and Washington

    Creator:
    Clark, Joseph Oliver
    Abstract:
    Public education in the United States is fundamental to future economic performance. The attention paid to public education institutions generally revolves around school districts, state education agencies, and the role of the federal government. However, an often overlooked cog is the educational service agency. Known in Oregon and Washington as...
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    presented on December 12, 2013. APPROVED: Victor J. Tremblay, representing Economics