Sentences with phrase «federal footprint in»

According to Alyson Klein from Education Week, «The NCLB law criticized for growing the federal footprint in K - 12 education, and for relying too heavily on standardized tests.

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 that don't.

While the administration's proposed cuts have been embraced by fiscal conservatives who argue that Education Department programs need to be trimmed or eliminated, some conservatives are also troubled by the administration's proposal to invest new money in school choice, saying that represents an unwelcome expansion of the federal footprint in education.

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.

On the Republican side, you have many who want to dramatically reduce the federal footprint in federal education policy, and then others who accept that there is going to be a federal role, and think it needs to enhance accountability and expand choice where possible.

Never mind that this brief account of Senator Alexander's career is incredibly misleading; Alexander joined other Republicans in calling for the elimination of the Department of Education in the mid-1990s, and has long pushed for a smaller federal footprint in education.

«President Trump is committed to reducing the federal footprint in education, and that is reflected in this budget,» Secretary of Education DeVos told members of a key House subcommittee.

That's right: Contrary to popular belief, Secretary Arne DuncanArne Starkey DuncanObama Education secretary mocks Pruitt over staff raises Parkland survivors talk gun violence with Chicago high schoolers Trump administration is putting profits over students MORE actually shrank the federal footprint in education by empowering states to be drivers of education reform.

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In that, it did something exquisitely rare, which is to shrink the federal footprint in the domestic sphere (the normal course of events is a steady increase of federal control).

The NCLB law has also been criticized for growing the federal footprint in K - 12 education, and for relying too heavily on standardized tests.

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He left an indelible footprint in the sands of times, having served this country in different capacities as a teacher, civil servants, a Second World War veteran, a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a parliamentarian of note.

Following in the not - so - proud footprints of Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling schools.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act, which takes full effect in the 2017 - 18 school year, rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low - performing schools.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which goes into full effect in the 2018 — 19 school year, rolled back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low - performing schools.

More broadly, ESSA does something exquisitely rare — it actively shrinks the federal footprint, in perhaps the sharpest reversal of federal ambitions since the welfare - reform act of 1996.

The bill, informally called ESSA, aims to lighten the footprint of the federal government in K - 12 education policy.

While it is true that it will be one of the best - performing buildings in the federal portfolio, we think its real power will be to illustrate the power of the thinking about «footprints» as something that can...

The federal government has quite a footprint in overseas locations throughout the world.

The government footprint in the mortgage market was larger than ever in 2010, the report noted, with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration buying or guaranteeing approximately 90 percent of single - family mortgages originated last year.