Sentences with phrase «appropriate federal role»

The House proposes to eliminate more than 70 elementary and secondary education programs to «restore fiscal discipline and promote a more appropriate federal role in education.»

FEA has provided a blueprint and detailed recommendations to ensure a strong but appropriate federal role in improving schools and student learning.»

The appropriate federal role is an important national debate that will not easily be settled and educators should advocate, individually and collectively, in support of their opinions on what that role should be.

Creating comparable, accessible, easy - to - understand data would be an appropriate federal role and be a big help to local policymakers and advocates.

What we need is a clear recognition of the appropriate federal role in education and a deeper understanding of the meaning of a good education.

While nobody is thrilled with NCLB, there are concerns that the Senate Republicans are going to go too far in «retreating» from the appropriate federal role.

And with the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act (ESEA), it could have worked in good faith with congressional Republicans to find a reasonable compromise on the appropriate federal role going forward.

But while the appropriate federal role in the policies and practices of local schools is a matter of debate, ensuring transparency through data collection should not be.

In particular, a Romney administration is more likely to differ on the appropriate federal role in pushing those policies.

While the appropriate federal role in the policies and practices of local schools is a matter of debate, ensuring transparency through data collection should not be.

The debates over the appropriate federal role in education have been persistent for decades, oscillating between the federal government and the states with regards to scope, strengthening, and responsibility.

When asked about her commitment to public education, McSally said she is «committed to the appropriate federal role in public education,» and explained that the «House will vote this week...

«Only though a clearly defined and appropriate federal role, a willingness to explore a revised charge of the U.S. Department of Education, and placing primary responsibility for education in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local levels.»

Meanwhile, the advent of a new presidential administration has reintroduced a conversation about the appropriate federal role in education.

Whatever one thinks of the appropriate federal role in education, there are surely strong reasons in our constitutional democracy to prefer that we get to where we are going through law rather than executive edict.

Jackson acknowledged that while there is a debate about the «appropriate federal role» in land use decisions, it's also apparent that federal decisions can influence development patterns.

«An appropriate federal role might be to provide technical assistance grants to the states to help them get the job done,» 2005 NAR President Al Mansell told House lawmakers last year.