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  2. Template : Official languages of U.S. states and territories

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    Arkansas: Yes: None: since 1987 [1] California: Yes: None: since 1986 with Proposition 63. [1] Proposition 63 is unenforceable due to the lack of appropriate legislation, [4] and the Bilingual Services Act provides for the use of other languages in public outreach. [5] Colorado: Yes: None

  3. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    The name was borrowed into Spanish as texa, plural texas, and was used to refer to the Nabedache people (and later to the Caddo Nation in general). When the Spanish decided to convert the Nabedache to Catholicism, they constructed La Misión de San Francisco de los Texas, which later came to be used in naming the Viceroyalty of New Spain’s ...

  4. Common Core implementation by state - Wikipedia

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    Alaska opted out of adopting the Standards, as said in How the Alaska English/Language Arts and Mathematics Standards Differ from the Common Core State Standards, published by the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (EED) "Alaska did not choose to adopt the CCSS; it was important to Alaskan educators to have the opportunity to adjust portions of the standards based on the ...

  5. List of state achievement tests in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The following standardized tests are designed and/or administered by state education agencies and/or local school districts in order to measure academic achievement across multiple grade levels in elementary, middle and senior high school, as well as for high school graduation examinations to measure proficiency for high school graduation.

  6. Upside-down question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia

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    Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"

  7. Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas (/ ˈ ɑːr k ən s ɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw [c]) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. [9] [10] It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west.

  8. Arkansas Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansas Territory was a territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, to June 15, 1836, when the final extent of Arkansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas. [2] Arkansas Post was the first territorial capital (1819–1821) and Little Rock was the second (1821–1836).

  9. Arkansas in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    During the American Civil War, Arkansas was a Confederate state, though it had initially voted to remain in the Union.Following the capture of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln called for troops from every Union state to put down the rebellion, and Arkansas along with several other southern states seceded.