Sentences with phrase «federal education power»

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Trump's new executive order to review federal regulations on K - 12 schools doesn't give his education secretary powers she didn't already have, but it could set the stage for a set of proposed changes next year.

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The vote in Congress represents a referendum of sorts on the work of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has wielded more power than any other federal education official in the nation'sEducation Secretary Arne Duncan, who has wielded more power than any other federal education official in the nation'seducation official in the nation's history.

I don't know, based entirely on the lede, the education one could be criticizing him for not pushing legislation to ban federal funding for schools where teacher unions have collective bargaining powers.

Federal officials had the power to sanction schools with high opt our rates by withholding funding, and the state's education commissioner said a few days ago that she was talking to officials and would not rule out the sanctions compete.

The Speaker charged civil society to intensify public education on the need to collect and preserve their PVCs, asserting that people must be driven to partake in electoral processes so that they we continue to wield power as enshrined in the constitution of the federal republic.

ALBANY — The day after Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his dramatic and contentious education agenda, the state lawmaker who holds the most power over New York's schools was arrested on federal corruption charges.

In ascertaining the power of any city having less than one hundred twenty - five thousand inhabitants according to the latest federal census to contract indebtedness, indebtedness heretofore contracted by such city for education purposes shall be excluded.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Republicans who plan to run for statewide office on a ballot line called «Stop Common Core» are spreading «mythology» that the academic standards represent a power - grab by the federal government.

Federal officials had the power to sanction schools with high opt out rates by withholding funding, and the state's education commissioner said a few days ago that she was talking to officials and would not rule out the sanctions compete.

Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.

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His views on this issue, if they prevail, have the potential to limit the power of federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education.

All the talk about federal versus state power in education strikes a lot of people as beside the point.

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.»

But however the case is resolved, it serves as an important reminder of the importance of state - specific constitutional language and precedents, the considerable degree of variation in legal rules in our 50 - state federal system, and the continuing power of the local control idea in education law.

Taken together, these recent developments confirm that public education is an area of virtually complete state power (although now subject to greater federal intervention) that can be reshaped by state legislatures in either a centralizing or decentralizing direction or in both directions at once.

If the department is lenient in its evaluation of these plans, it would amount to a de facto rollback in federal oversight because the Department of Education would be choosing not to exercise its powers to the full extent permitted by law.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different incomEducation decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different incomeducation for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

That power has steadily increased over the decades, especially in recent years, as federal initiatives like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have pushed states to assume more authority over education.

The second option — devolving recently accumulated federal power to the states — underlies recent reauthorization proposals for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that allow each state to establish its own accountability system and that require teeth only for the very lowest - performing schools.

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said for the first time this early in the year, the data showed international student numbers had grown 12 per cent to 509,610 in the year to February 2018, on top of a 54 per cent increase over the past five years since the current Federal Government came to power in 2013.

3) Common Core enthusiasts support granting dramatically more power to the federal government over education to improve the odds that their centralized machine can be built and implemented.

But all federal power is not gone in education policy - making.

Yet the education industry — including federal, state, and local education policymakers, plus all those who work to deliver teaching and learning to students — has recently made a sizable bet on the power of professional support to change teaching and boost student learning.

Despite the loss of local elections and the defeat of Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (who had appointed the controversial schools chancellor Michelle Rhee), the combined clout of these groups, plus the enormous power of the federal government and the uncritical support of the major media, presents a serious challenge to the viability and future of public education.

But moms have a more elemental objection: The whole operation is a federal power grab over their children's education.

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

Obama's Education Department used its federal power to coerce states to adopt the Common Core State Standards, expand charter schools and use student test scores to evaluate teachers, an assessment method that experts warned against.

It is often said that the federal government has little power when it comes to education reform because it kicks in less than 10 percent of the total cost of K - 12 education.

In the current re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, many in Congress are eager to reduce the role of the federal government in education and restore power tEducation Act, many in Congress are eager to reduce the role of the federal government in education and restore power teducation and restore power to states.

The power of federal taxation clearly is a power of the federal government, but nonetheless some conservatives — sensitized by numerous overreaches during the Obama era in the area of education — are urging that any national scholarship tax credit be subject to approval on a state - by - state basis.

Proposing that overregulation of operations in the education system prevents schools from providing the best service to students, the authors posit that school boards and state and federal governments, though perhaps well intentioned, have incrementally removed the power of schools.

ESSA pushes decision - making power about most aspects of accountability from federal education officials to the states and localities.

A proposed provision that declares that nothing in future education policy would prevent the passage of Parent Trigger laws or other Parent Power efforts would be meaningful if it also proposed a competitive grant program to encourage states to enact such laws; as is, there is nothing in federal law that restricts states from passing Parent Trigger laws or keeps families from using them.

On the right, conservatives want to shrink the federal footprint in education even further; on the left, the civil rights community and the Obama administration have argued that federal government must have the power to keep states from hiding achievement gaps or ignoring struggling schools.

He and Alexander want to «reduce the federal footprint in K - 12 education» and strip Education Secretary Arne Duncan of his power to reward states that adopt the Obama administration's standards and punish those theducation» and strip Education Secretary Arne Duncan of his power to reward states that adopt the Obama administration's standards and punish those thEducation Secretary Arne Duncan of his power to reward states that adopt the Obama administration's standards and punish those that don't.

«The grinding, two - year process of drafting accountability plans under ESSA has upended states» K - 12 political landscape and laid bare long - simmering factions among power brokers charged with putting the new federal education law into effect this school year,» writes Daarel Burnette II in Educateducation law into effect this school year,» writes Daarel Burnette II in EducationEducation Week.

The federal government answered this question by establishing a program officer in the Department of Education who has the power to redirect consortia activity if the «outcomes are inconsistent with the intended project outcomes.»

But Alexander now wanted to scale back the federal role, trim the education secretary power and potentially give states block granted federal funds that could be converted into school vouchers.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, a former school teacher of poor immigrants on the outskirts of the American Dream, recognized the awesome power of the federal government to ensure that all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive a quality education.

You believe in the power of the federal government to do good and make sure that disadvantaged kids get access to the education they deserve.

Unlike others, the Fordham Foundation analyst isn't so much concerned about what LAUSD is asking to do, or the federal government's ability to oversee the progress of individual districts around the country, but rather the possibility that a waiver for LAUSD gives too much power to the Education Department in Washington and bypasses state education Education Department in Washington and bypasses state education education agencies.

The Senate's vote moves the bill, which rolls back a significant amount of federal power over K - 12 education, to the president's desk.

It is possible that since the start of major federal involvement in the mid 1960s, no one person or law — not even George W. Bush or the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)-- has centralized education power as much as Obama has.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in late 2015, reversed the seemingly inexorable sweep of federal education history, returning power to the states and people.

But given the ever - increasing power of the federal government over education — from just doling out money in the mid 1960s to coercing specific standards, tests, and teacher - evaluation rules — ESSA is a significant success.

«Since it was so predictable that this massive statist bill would lead to an even greater federal power - grab than we've seen before, a cynic might suspect Sen. Alexander is playing to the cameras with his outrage,» education activist and fellow at American Principles Project Jane Robbins told Breitbart News after the hearing.