14 Jan No Child Left Behind Act

PA584 Intergovernmental Management

Course Project

Intergovernmental Management Paper

Objective

The Course Project is an opportunity for you to explore, in-depth, a topic of your choosing related to intergovernmental management. Accordingly, a first step in that direction is for you to choose an appropriate topic and submit a proposal in Week 2. The proposal can be as brief as two or three paragraphs but should be detailed enough to reflect a strong start to the project by you. In that regard, please be sure to explain how you expect that your research and analysis will relate to one or more specific COs for this course. A list of potential topics is presented below. These are intended as very broad areas; you will need to narrow the topic and refine the analysis so that the intergovernmental aspects are appropriately considered.

Guidelines

The following guidelines are pertinent to the paper for the project.

Papers must be 8-12 pages in length with 10-point font and double-spaced. Include a cover page, table of contents, introduction, body of the report, summary or conclusion, and a reference page for the works cited. Note that the length is for the content only; the cover page, table of contents, and reference page are in addition to those pages.

Even though this is not a scientific-type writing assignment, and is mostly creative in nature, references are still very important. At least six authoritative, outside references are required. Anonymous authors or web pages are not acceptable as references. These should be listed on the last page titled References.

Appropriate citations are required.

The paper should be in the American Psychological Association (APA) format.

All DeVry University policies are in effect, including the plagiarism policy.

Papers are due during Week 7 of this course.

Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the Course Q & A Forum.

This paper is worth 200 total points and will be graded on quality of research topic; quality of paper information; and the use of citations, grammar, and sentence structure.

Milestones

You will need to meet the following milestones for deliverables during the next few weeks:

Week 2 – Topic Selection (This includes a 2-3 paragraph proposal in a Word document to be submitted.)

Week 5 – Status Report (A 2-3 paragraph summary of your work to date in a Word document is to be submitted. The main emphasis is to provide you with a chance to explain if you are having questions or problems.)

Week 7 – Final Submission (See the Guidelines above regarding this deliverable.)

Topic Areas

It is again emphasized that the topic selected should be related to a specific intergovernmental management issue or need. Some of the topics listed below already have the intergovernmental aspect included. Others are broader topics. For instance, ethics is listed as a possible topic, but a person would need to refine the topic so that it relates more specifically to one or more of the COs. Also, this list is not meant to be all-inclusive. With those caveats in mind, please consider the following as possible topics:

Ethics

Interstate compacts

Uniform state laws

Compact Clause of the United States Constitution

Immigration laws and enforcement (including the concept of preemption)

Mutual aid agreements

Emergency Management Assistance Compact

Grants system

Medical marijuana: the interplay of federal and state laws

FEMA and state emergency agencies

No Child Left Behind Act

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Medicaid and resulting state programs

Mandates: funded and/or unfunded

Planning and financing of the highway system

Planning and financing of air transport facilities, such as an airport