Sentences with phrase «federal carrots and sticks»

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Ottawa has long interfered in health care, another area of provincial responsibility, with federal cash to as both the carrot and stick to enforce federal preferences.

They urged the Federal Government to apply the carrot and stick approach by negotiating with the host communities to bring about sustainable solutions to the problem.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government used carrots and sticks to encourage states to adopt new academic standards and test - based teacher evaluation systems.

It provided, in Graham's words, both the carrot of federal funds and the stick of their withdrawal.

Pressure by the Obama Administration, using the carrot of incentives (RTTT) and the stick of proposed penalties (denial of access to Title I funding), to induce states to sign on to the common standards initiative raises serious questions about further federal involvement in standards - setting and assessments.

The Common Core standards are not federal standards, Duncan would have us believe; but the U.S. Department of Education has championed them, and has used its extensive arsenal of carrots and sticks to push states to adopt them.