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  2. No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia

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    According to the book NCLB Meets School Realities, the act was put into action during a time of fiscal crisis for most states. [124] While states were being forced to make budget cuts, including in the area of education, they had to incur additional expenses to comply with the requirements of the NCLB Act. The funding they received from the ...

  3. Charter schools in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Charter schools often tended to exist in urban locations, rather than rural. This study also found enormous variation among states. Charter schools tended to be somewhat more racially diverse, and to enroll slightly fewer students with special needs or limited English proficiency than the average schools in their state. [34]

  4. Scuba diving - Wikipedia

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    Recreational scuba diver The undersea kelp forest of Ana Capa off of the coast of Oxnard, California Diver looking at a shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea. Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance. [1]

  5. Quality management - Wikipedia

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    It gives one single integrated standard for the food industry, defining requirements for any organization in the food chain. Technical Standard TS 16949 defines requirements in addition to those in ISO 9001:2008 specifically for the automotive industry. ISO has a number of standards that support quality management.

  6. Colorado State University - Wikipedia

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    In response to claims that the university was falling behind national standards, the board retired or demoted several senior professors and administrators deemed past the peak of their proficiency and hired new doctorate-holding personnel while consolidating sections of lecture courses. [32]

  7. Vanderbilt University - Wikipedia

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    Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the ...

  8. Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila - Wikipedia

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    The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), also officially as the University of the City of Manila, is a municipal public university in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.It is funded by the city government of Manila.