Sentences with phrase «diminishing federal role»
By an overwhelming margin, American voters strongly value homeownership and would oppose efforts to weaken or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction or diminish a federal role to help qualified home buyers obtain affordable 30 - year mortgages, according to a new nationwide survey gauging likely voters» attitudes towards homeownership and housing policy issues.
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The primary objective of the Harper government has always been to diminish the role of the federal government in economic policy.
With the federal government's role in school accountability sharply diminished, it now falls to state and local governments to take decisive action.
The office of educational research and improvement has become politicized, diminishing its credibility and restricting the amount of money the Congress is willing to provide for its activities, concludes the report, «Educational Research, Development, and Dissemination: Reclaiming a Vision of the Federal Role for the 1990's and Beyond.»
This was a yin - and - yang exercise — as the federal role grew, the opportunity for states to exercise their constitutional oversight of public education and for local school boards to effectively supervise its delivery diminished.
By design, under ESSA, the role of the federal government in education is greatly diminished, and states face critical and substantial policy decisions in framing school accountability and the academic standards and testing systems that underpin those structures.
A recent decision of the Federal Court of Appeal («FCA») has muddied the waters regarding the role of the administrative tribunals in Crown - Aboriginal consultation and effectively diminished the duty of tribunals to assess the adequacy of Crown consultation in respect of project applications before them.
The Internet has changed but not diminished the role real estate brokers play in helping buyers close real estate transactions successfully, a former president of the U.S. - based National Association of Realtors told a workshop on competition in the real estate industry sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division recently.