Sentences with phrase «federal bureaucrats willing»

With the help of federal bureaucrats willing to violate the cardinal rule of bureaucracy — by surrendering regulatory power to the marketplace — emissions trading would become one of the most spectacular success stories in the history of the green movement.

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If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

When I fear I'm forgetting any of this, I'll call an old friend or colleague who will call bulls $ % t... and remind me what I used to say about self - impressed federal bureaucrats.

Recriminations will be directed at state departments of education for not providing sufficient curriculum materials, at district leaders for not preparing students and teachers adequately, at testing contractors for logistical snafus and at federal bureaucrats for interfering with state standard - setting.

The real issue is what will happen as a result: eventually all subject matter will be essentially mandated by federal bureaucrats and some of this subject matter will be contrary to local, community values.

As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»

Now as a federal bureaucrat hired outside any sort of approval system, he'll be free to disregard public opinion entirely.

It will lead you straight to the treasuries of state and federal governments, where academia constitutes an important player in the fascistic enterprise coordinated by politicians in office and their appointed bureaucrats at agencies such as the National Science Foundation.»

I also conducted consultations across Australia with Indigenous communities, Community Councils and organisations, ATSIC Regional Councils as well as with Ministers, senior bureaucrats at the state, territory and federal level, and with staff within the new regional coordination centres who will be implementing these changes.

I also conducted consultations across Australia with a variety of Indigenous communities, organisations and community councils, ATSIC Regional Councils and Commissioners, as well as with Ministers and senior bureaucrats at the state, territory and federal level, and with staff within the new regional coordination centres who will be implementing the changes.

One senior federal bureaucrat said Australia had adopted a «done - to» model of Indigenous affairs policy: «I'll do health «to you» rather than the self - determination model which will give you the skills and empower you to do it for yourself... if you look at the Cape York Welfare Reform trial and if you look at the Intervention, then that was really the big culmination of «you can't do it for yourselves.»