Founded in 1975, the National Conference of State Legislatures is one of several non-profit organizations that claims to represent the legislatures in the states, territories and commonwealths of the U.S. Its mission is to advance the effectiveness, independence and integrity of legislatures and to foster interstate cooperation and facilitate the exchange of information among legislatures.
NCSL also represents legislatures in dealing with the federal government, especially in support of state sovereignty and state flexibility and protection from unfunded federal mandates and unwarranted federal preemption. The conference promotes cooperation between state legislatures in the U.S. and those in other countries.
In addition, NCSL is committed to improving the operations and management of state legislatures, and the effectiveness of legislators and legislative staff. NCSL also encourages the practice of high standards of conduct by legislators and legislative staff.
United States Constitution: Elections and Voting Rights
National Conference of State Legislatures: Polling Places
National Conference of State Legislatures: 50-state surveys
* The NCSL would be advised to change the name of the game they have coded for teaching schoolchildren in the United States — a “constitutional republic”; not a democracy. A democracy is aptly described as “two foxes and a chicken” deciding what’s for dinner. Among the nearly two-hundred national governing documents in the world the United States Constitution presents the go-to standard limiting the power of the central national government so that a federation of 50 independent states can govern themselves to the furthest extent possible. Education communities in the United States are closely aligned with partisans of a large federal government; a fact that effects every dimension of American culture and, for our intent, effects the architectural character of these cities-within-cities because of the money flow that sustains them.
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
— Plato
BallotPedia: List of school districts in the United States
Wikipedia: List of school districts in the United States
Educational Services for Immigrant Children and Those Recently Arrived to the United States
The raison d’être for Standards Michigan is to intervene in sustainability and safety standards development to remove 10 to 100 million dollars out of every billion dollars spent. In any other industry, that amount of money would be meaningful.
“The prettiest sight I know,
Worth all your roses and snow,
Is the blaze of light on a Saturday night”
– E. Nesbit, ‘Saturday Song’
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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,
but because he loves what is behind him.”
— G.K. Chesterton
The United States military academies incorporate by reference nearly all of the codes and standards that provide the templates for safety and sustainability of all other education communities. Where possible today we will examine a few noteworthy exceptions required by the United States Military.
Our approach is necessarily educational because military standards tend to be sensitive and product oriented and are frequently released for public consultation; except when the Department of Defense seeks competitive bids for products, systems or research projects. The bibliography linked below provides the broad contours of the topic.
NIST: Learn How to Find Standards
ASSIST: Database for Military Specifications
Defense Standardization Program
University of Minnesota Duluth: MIL-SPECS
Penn State University: US Government and Military Standards
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