Sentences with phrase «as federal overreach»

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.

The new Common Core tests — designed to set and evaluate common benchmarks nationwide — appear to have fueled that frustration and brought new voices into the coalition opposing tests, including some conservatives who decry the Common Core as federal overreach.

Wilhoit noted some irony in the against the Common Core State Standards in some state revolves around the mistaken notion that it is part of a federal takeover of education when CCSSO and the National Governors Association started the common core as a reaction to what was seen as a federal overreach in education based in the No Child Left Behind Act and other federal actions.

A September 2017 McLaughlin poll indicates 68 % of Alabama respondents view common core as federal overreach.

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The drone industry largely sees itself as hamstrung by an overreaching and underfunded Federal Aviation Administration.

A defiant Donald Trump has pledged to appeal against a federal judge's order placing an immediate halt on his revised travel ban, describing the ruling as judicial overreach that made the United States look weak.

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Back in 2014, I noted that many House Republicans were decrying the inability of schools to sell hard - boiled eggs (banned under Smart Snacks because of their fat content) as a prime example of federal «nanny state» overreach.

Other GOP lawmakers have been more vocal in defending last year's federal Stream Protection Rule as one necessary to beat back what they perceive as overreaching regulatory actions, specifically when it comes to protecting the coal industry.

(CNN)-- Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday he's against Common Core, the academic standards that have many conservatives decrying the program as an overreach of the federal government.

He has been a stalwart critic of the federal government's consistent overreach, and the state government's passing down of expensive mandates, such as massive Medicaid burdens that gobble up precious local resources.

As Lagos State governor, I challenged several Federal Government decisions for overreach and for violating the principles of federalism.

Republicans, though, have long seen the president's environmental policies as an overreach of federal power and a danger to the economy.

Yet for all the yammering of politicians about federal meddling and overreach in the realm of academic standards, nearly as many Americans (41 percent) would have the federal government take the lead in «setting educational standards for what students should know» as would assign that role to the states (43 percent).

Five years on, I see it more as a monument to paper promises, bureaucratic ineptitude, and federal overreach.

It quickly became a liability to hold teachers accountable for results on tests they had never seen before, and much of the Republican establishment seized on Common Core as the embodiment of federal overreach.

The NPR piece drove home the point that standards themselves can only accomplish so much: «Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach,» Garland wrote, «they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test - makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education.»

There could be modest gains: Republicans would have more leeway to hammer on President Barack Obama's education policies, which they see as aggressive federal overreach.

As a result, the Common Core got enmeshed in partisan debates and concerns about Obama - style federal overreach.

According to the Daily Caller, Paul, who doesn't think the federal Department of Education should even exist, conceded at a National Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday that his request for more reading time is a strategy to hold up a bill he sees as an overreach by the federal government.

From the get - go, the program has been reviled on Capitol Hill as Exhibit A for those arguing against federal overreach in K - 12 education.

That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states.

Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach, they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test - makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education, not make it worse.

A backlash to the federal government's reliance on local testing was taking hold, and Republicans who had previously supported more «accountability» — read: testing — now decried those same tests as government overreach.

However, budget cuts and proposals such as vouchers and other programs that divert essential funding from schools, along with federal government overreach, denigrates the amazing work taking place in what is arguably our most valuable institution.

Most states have adopted the Common Core, which have become a polarizing symbol of federal overreach despite starting as a state - led initiative, but Oklahoma repealed those standards earlier this year.

Opponents view the new standards as an example of federal overreach.

The Congress acted as if the problem were an overreaching federal government, and solved it by curbing its powers.

Referring to what he views as extreme federal overreach, the committee's top Republican, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), repeatedly called the Harkin bill the «national school system» and said Congress is becoming the national school board.

All of the defectors, so far, are states led by Republican governors who have taken considerable heat from tea party activists and GOP legislators who oppose Common Core as an overreach by the federal government.

Much of the misinformation centers on the perceived role of the federal government in this state - led effort, with some characterizing the Common Core as national standards and an example of federal overreach that usurps state and local decision making about what and how students should learn.

Critics of the Obama administration's Department of Education repeatedly targeted what they saw as federal «overreach» into local districts.