Sentences with phrase «federal education spending focuses»

And federal education spending focuses directly on giving states and districts money to close achievement gaps, which assumes money matters.

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As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

The New Normal for Federal Education Spending (3/4/10) Choice and Residential Segregation (2/23/10) Studies Find No Effects (1/7/10) Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

He then argues that unless the federal government is very careful, the forces and factors that led to these distressing spending patterns — like huge state budget deficits, local resistance to federal education guidance, and interest group focus on jobs — could similarly influence the Race to the Top, compromising its ultimate impact.

They did spend plenty of time attacking the aspects of No Child (and the federal role in education policy) that actually focus on helping all kids succeed.

DeVos said, «I see you when you're bearing the brunt of the regulatory burden that local, state, and federal governments — including the U.S. Department of Education, though I'm working to change that — put on you... [Principals] should be able to spend more time focusing on the people, not on the paperwork.»

Before focusing on education six years ago, he spent two decades covering everything from Congress and the Federal Reserve to parenting and poverty for Bloomberg News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper and Congressional Quarterly Inc..