Supporters of the bill called the Common Core standards an example of
federal government meddling in state education policy.
To be sure, I don't want
the federal government meddling in curriculum issues and can point to many examples where Washington regulations — on matters of spending, «highly - qualified teachers,» and student discipline — have done more harm than good.
Not exact matches
But it appears that treason is the very charge threatened against U.S. technology companies if they
meddle in the
federal government's attempt to collect private data on millions of Americans.
Current right - wing mythology has it that bad banking is always the result of
government intervention, whether from the
Federal Reserve or
meddling liberals in Congress.
Yet for all the yammering of politicians about
federal meddling and overreach in the realm of academic standards, nearly as many Americans (41 percent) would have the
federal government take the lead in «setting educational standards for what students should know» as would assign that role to the states (43 percent).
What the policy ultimately looks like may also be a creature of what is politically possible given the congressional agenda and the backlash in certain states against perceived
meddling from the
federal government.
He does not support
federal meddling with higher education; for instance, he commented, «We need to get the
federal government out of the loan shark business and instead refocused on building a strong economy.»
Maybe if we all concentrate with Facebook to address this issue of the Russians
meddling with our election process, we can conveniently forget the real (and much more alarming) issue of undue influence in our
Federal Government by Big Money Interests like the MIC.