Sentences with phrase «expanding federal involvement»

He also expressed a desire to assist families in securing affordable «daycare» which may be an opening toward expanding federal involvement in early childhood education.

When President George W. Bush signed the current version, No Child Left Behind, in 2002, it expanded federal involvement and penalized schools that it labeled as «failing.»

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Federal and state involvement could greatly expand the model or eliminate some of the barriers that cities might face in implementing such programs on their own.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

But in an effort to rectify long - standing inequalities, federal involvement expanded slowly during the second half of the twentieth century, culminating in 2001 with the bipartisan passage of NCLB.

WASHINGTON — Some observers see irony in the fact that a former Governor, as Secretary of Education in the Administration of another former Governor, is presiding over an effort to significantly expand the federal government's involvement in an area that has traditionally been a state responsibility.

explanations include the lack of a feudal heritage, widespread citizen involvement in machine - style political parties (forestalling socialism), a federal system of government, a fast - growing economy, an expanding frontier, an enviable education system, risk - taking immigrants, and a belief in hard work, entrepreneurialism and opportunity.

Federal involvement began more than 225 years ago, even before George Washington was president, when Congress passed two laws — the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 — to create and maintain public schools in the expanding United States.

We could expand that model to the other categories of federal involvement, but I think that approach is unwise.