Sentences with phrase «us federal bureaucrat»

Lawmakers left it up to federal bureaucrats to define what exactly «safer» means.

But we also quite simply need to hire more federal bureaucrats.

But it contains some zingy writing from a federal bureaucrat!

His definition started with the negative: it is not broken - down public housing; not neighborhoods where children and 73 - year - olds are on their own; not decision - making in which planners, city officials or federal bureaucrats — everyone but the people call the tune.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats,» said Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher.

On Astorino's Facebook page, he referenced the libertarian argument against the Common Core, writing: «I believe in local control of our local schools and not control by faceless state and federal bureaucrats.»

«This week, Andrew Cuomo said he backs his old agency, the federal bureaucrats at HUD, in their attack on Westchester County,» Astorino said in the video.

Of all the problems that could beset a federal bureaucrat, deciding how to shovel billions of unexpected dollars out the door in record time has got to be one of the least common and most enjoyable.

The total 2010 budget for the department as a whole would grow to $ 26.3 billion from $ 24 billion in 2008; the projection for 2009 is $ 33.9 billion, plus a whopping $ 39 billion for energy programs under the stimulus package recently passed and $ 1.6 billion for the Office of Science, which federal bureaucrats plan to spend primarily on building scientific facilities.

Congress can do little more than enact laws that tell federal bureaucrats to write rules for states, which write rules for school districts, which give directions to schools.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Federal bureaucrats would do well to focus on targeted competitive grant programs to encourage the adoption of their desired policies in places that really want to pursue them.

This is a breathtaking expansion of federal power into one of the most sensitive aspects of American schooling, and substitutes the judgment of federal bureaucrats for local educators and officials.

When I fear I'm forgetting any of this, I'll call an old friend or colleague who will call bulls $ % t... and remind me what I used to say about self - impressed federal bureaucrats.

Recriminations will be directed at state departments of education for not providing sufficient curriculum materials, at district leaders for not preparing students and teachers adequately, at testing contractors for logistical snafus and at federal bureaucrats for interfering with state standard - setting.

Second, they illustrate an almost endless faith in federal bureaucrats» ability to intervene effectively and positively in far - away places.

The question has a narrow answer when the respondent is a federal bureaucrat, charged with counting academic outcomes in the aggregate to assess student performance relative to some national metric.

The real issue is what will happen as a result: eventually all subject matter will be essentially mandated by federal bureaucrats and some of this subject matter will be contrary to local, community values.

Yesterday's proposed rules on school accountability are yet another reminder that it's time for federal bureaucrats at the Department of Education to get their hands out of our education system.

Common Core is the latest attempt to bribe states, with money taken from the American people, into adopting a curriculum developed by federal bureaucrats and education «experts.»

If that line sounds familiar, it should: Insisting that schools would be lost if federal bureaucrats didn't tell them what to do was standard fare under Obama.

Teachers often suffer from overload when new administrators, or state and federal bureaucrats, set out to change too many things too quickly.

While almost every state has gotten an official permission slip, federal bureaucrats retained the final word on whether a state's plan would pass muster, and those waivers were conditioned on commitments to adopt administration - approved education reforms.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats.

Now as a federal bureaucrat hired outside any sort of approval system, he'll be free to disregard public opinion entirely.

Unsurprisingly, the National Pork Producers Council, according to the Pork Network blog, said «it would set a dangerous precedent for allowing federal bureaucrats to regulate on - farm production practices.»

Because those states surround the metropolitan District of Columbia where federal bureaucrats, U.S. elected representatives and administration officials pontificate about the rapid and dangerous «global warming».

Try these: 1) $ 171,000 To Study How Monkeys Gamble 2) $ 856,000 To Film Mountain Lions Running On Treadmills 3) Synchronized Swimming For Sea Monkeys 4) Swedish Massages For Bunnies 5) Free Luxury Gym Memberships For Federal Bureaucrats 6) $ 331,000 To Study Whether «Hangry» Spouses Are More Likely To Stab Voodoo Dolls 7) $ 18 Million To Renovate A Low - Traffic Airport That Serves A High - End Ski Resort 8) NIH Spent Over $ 800,000 To Make A Video Game About Food Fights http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/22/wastebook-2014-eight-absurd-government-projects-funded-with-your-money/

With the help of federal bureaucrats willing to violate the cardinal rule of bureaucracy — by surrendering regulatory power to the marketplace — emissions trading would become one of the most spectacular success stories in the history of the green movement.

One senior federal bureaucrat said Australia had adopted a «done - to» model of Indigenous affairs policy: «I'll do health «to you» rather than the self - determination model which will give you the skills and empower you to do it for yourself... if you look at the Cape York Welfare Reform trial and if you look at the Intervention, then that was really the big culmination of «you can't do it for yourselves.»

Not exact matches

The USD is a fiat currency directly backed by nothing, the supply of which can be arbitrarily altered and manipulated by a group of unelected bureaucrats in charge of the Federal Reserve.

While the post-1970 federal civilian workforce has hovered around two million full - time bureaucrats, the state and local government workforce roughly tripled, to more than eighteen million.

In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administration.

Can a bureaucrat at a federal veterans» cemetery tell local volunteers not to offer to pray with the bereaved who come for their loved ones» funerals?

This indirect subsidy attenuates the ability of bureaucrats to attach regulatory strings to funds, as the federal government often does.

I was shocked that Chief Oyegum, a very senior former bureaucrat who occupied the position of federal permanent secretary and who now chairs the ruling political party, could seek to impugn the judgments of the nation's highest court simply because their judgments did not align with his political interests and expectations.

As does every new president, Trump gets to fill out the ranks of federal science agencies with political appointees, from the agency chiefs who require Senate confirmation to lower - level bureaucrats.

They aren't asking for yet another government takeover that imposes new job - killing federal regulations and puts bureaucrats in charge of the Internet.

Today a small business that wants to fight an agency decision can sue in federal court and go bankrupt hiring lawyers, or use an agency's own appeals process staffed by its own bureaucrats.

The federal government is preparing to bring the experiment to the national level, but before undertaking such an effort, the bureaucrats need to make sure there are no flaws with the system and send in one of their own, Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell), to investigate.

That is why leading Republican candidates for president like Virginia senator George Allen now pepper their speeches with potshots at «federal education bureaucrats.»

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

When federal officials insist on «accountability,» these are just politicians and bureaucrats mouthing off.

Charter school expansion is supported by some policy makers and bureaucrats at the federal and state levels, as well as by some corporate leaders.

The Eagle Forum has called the Common Core «federal... control by Obama administration left - wing bureaucrats.»

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»

He has gained the respect of college professors as well as state legislators and federal and state bureaucrats.

It will lead you straight to the treasuries of state and federal governments, where academia constitutes an important player in the fascistic enterprise coordinated by politicians in office and their appointed bureaucrats at agencies such as the National Science Foundation.»

Are we talking about the bureaucrats who infest - er - inhabit the various federal (and state, etc) agencies that carry out enacted legislation, or somebody else?