Sentences with phrase «federal control»

He added that he doesn't believe in federal control of schools.

While the law marked a high water mark of federal control over K - 12 education, it was still, relatively speaking, not far from the ocean floor.

Unless they are called into active duty, they wouldn't be under federal control for a situation like this.

In short, opinion has shifted modestly away from federal control toward local control over the past two years.

• Will more federal funding mean more federal control over education?

While the standards remain in place in most states, they are opposed by conservative groups that fear expanded federal control and by teachers unions wary of their use in teacher evaluations.

It is that the end game is almost certainly complete federal control by connecting national standards and tests to annual federal funding.

Direct funding would also enable a second change: greater federal control over community colleges and states.

«It's not local control versus federal control,» he says.

Fortunately, energy producers are already reducing natural gas leaks without federal controls, as even the administration admits.

So, an increase in state control of something may mean a decrease in local control — whether or not federal control has seemingly decreased.

The new law focuses less on standardized testing requirements and transfers federal control of school accountability to the states.

In fact, there are many aspects of immigration that have been poorly handled under federal control.

Now, as the current administration pushes for national education standards, federal control over education is about to expand considerably at the expense of state and local control.

While most states remain committed to the standards, opposition has been voiced both by conservative groups who fear expanded federal control and by teachers unions worried about the consequences for teacher evaluation.

In short, this is support for private market influence versus federal control.

If the State's right argument is raised in the future due to violation of Federal Controlled Substances Act over the marijuana use, I am not sure if Inter-Commerce clause will be applicable.

Alexandria, Va., (April 26, 2017)- NSBA Executive Director & CEO Thomas J. Gentzel today released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump's executive order «Enforcing Statutory Prohibitions on Federal Control of Education:»

Washington — Negotiations that could lead to stricter federal controls on asbestos in school buildings are scheduled to begin this week, as the Environmental Protection Agency and a union representing school - maintenance employees attempt to settle a lawsuit over the issue.

Fordham, in coalition with its friends at Gates, Pearson, AFT, and the US Department of Education are trying to subvert this historical and legal consensus against federal control by failing to be candid about what they are proposing.

As I've laid out before, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has several ambiguities that seem to keep the door open for continued federal control over state standards, tests, and accountability mechanisms, even as the law has some provisions that seem to prohibit federal intervention.

Pell Grants for Kids would actually reduce federal control over education.

This invasion is part of a broader trend in which federal control of western lands is being challenged, increasingly with threats of violence, as Winston Ross and Michele Gorman wrote in Newsweek yesterday: Read more...

As for the federal level, whether the lawmakers and President Obama can come to an agreement on federal control legislation, such as a re-instatement of the assault weapons ban — remains to be seen.

Stacey, we have always had federal control because of federal funding.

We can expect the frontier to be a little wilder and lawless as federal control won't have quite the reach it does by the time the original Red Dead Redemption takes place.

Had states not been given the option to set any standard they wanted, many state and local officials would have balked at excessive federal control.

On that note, he voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which removed federal control on student loan interest rates.

Opinion has shifted modestly away from federal control toward local control over the past two years.

I bristle at federal control.

He also defended the legislation as a strong stand for state control over education and said that the legislation would free Mississippi from unwanted federal control.

That's what many ranchers and sympathizers opposing federal control of public lands in the West concluded after the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.

With hindsight, the Century editorialized that the 18th Amendment was an inadequate, unwise and undemocratic method of effecting federal control of the liquor traffic; but this was a noticeable change of tune, for the magazine had long supported the amendment.)

State control provides more avenues for self - determination than does federal control, because there are considerably fewer people in a state than the nation (so you can have more control over the outcome).

Cuomo has since then called on both Democrats and Republicans nationally to approve federal control legislation, saying it would choke the supply of illegal weapons into New York.

Balkanized federal controls over these dual - use substances exacerbate the problem, the report contends.

When Comstock testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy and Environment in May, he called for less federal control, saying «a regional management strategy could help to resolve the current challenges» in managing the red snapper population.

The faltering federal controls on methane followed a growing recognition of the gas's impact on the climate that translated into regulations on methane emissions for landfills and the oil and gas industry toward the end of Obama's second term.

The Bundys refuse to recognize federal control of public land.

Stacey, To date, we have not viewed the acceptance of these funds as additional federal control... since the rules and regulations for how they could be spent remained the same as previous federal allotment requirements.

The whole project of federal control embedded in NCLB is absurd and should be gracefully abandoned.

A charismatic icon of conservatism who argued against big government, former President Ronald W. Reagan left an education legacy marked by his advocacy of vouchers and school prayer and by his hopes of keeping federal control over classrooms from growing.