Sentences with phrase «less federal oversight»

Thus far, much of the focus has remained on college and career ready standards, the dissipation of NCLB waivers and less federal oversight of education decisions.

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We feel that schools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

chools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

NCLB architect and ranking Democratic committee member George Miller (CA) agreed with «the need to balance the accountability we worked so hard to implement in NCLB with greater flexibility at the local level and less prescription at the federal level,» but cautioned that some sort of federal oversight was needed lest schools return to a time when group averages obscured individual student performance in schools.

But despite the major impacts of the federal coal leasing program on the price of coal and carbon pollution, it has been largely administered by state BLM offices, with minimal oversight from the Interior Department, much less the White House.