Sentences with phrase «claiming federal overreach»

The interesting — and paradoxical — upshot here is that the greatest hope for the continuation of an active federal government in K — 12 schooling is highly able and highly responsible states: if states handle their ESEA waivers well, then there will be no need for ED to slap wrists and therefore no additional fuel for those claiming federal overreach.

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In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

But Kline couldn't incorporate such a provision without stoking claims of federal overreach from other movement conservatives; that the federal government couldn't mandate such a move even if either Kline or the Obama Administration wanted to also makes the entire effort an exercise in futility.