Sentences with phrase «federal influence»

I think gone are the days when the citizens would vote for a candidate because of federal influence.

Judging by this voting history, he most likely supports the private market over federal influence in student aid.

Conservatives complain it opens the door to federal influence in local schools.

He supports limiting federal influence on education, namely in the spirit of budget cuts, but this includes defunding the Pell Grant program and other higher education programs.

His principal of limiting federal influence is backed up by his support for the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which removed politics from defining interest rates.

For many who had hoped increased federal influence on schools, through, for example, the adoption of Common Core, would have solved seemingly intransigent problems like the achievement gap between students of color and their white and Asian peers, decentralization under ESSA might seem like defeat.

Under ESSA the responsibilities for school improvement are transferred to the state and local levels greatly reducing federal influences on local school decision making.

Randy Weber (R) supports stemming federal influence over anything he considers a state issue, and education, and thus higher education, falls under that description.

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

«My point is that there should be nothing like federal influence or power in elections anymore.

Both factions would like to remove the taint of federal influence from state - based reform.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

Washington Watch Congress looks at CTE, student data as Trump team continues push for school choice, less federal influence

In short, he is pro-limiting federal influence.

In 2013, he helped keep interest rates low while skimming down federal influence by voting in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act.

He is pro-smaller Federal Government, so he most likely supports shifting federal influence on higher education towards state and local authorities.

The track record of Rep. Bill Shuster (R) lacks anything student loan related, but Rep. Shuster has supported legislation to remove federal influence on education, albeit unrelated to higher education directly.

The NCLB version of the law expanded the scope of federal influence in public education by requiring states to collect more student data and show that students were meeting specific learning standards in order to have access to specific funding sources (NCLB, 2002).

The program ended when Congress failed to appropriate funds for its continuation in the 2015 federal spending bill.14 In some sectors, there is increased debate about whether federal funds for education are best allocated through formulas or competitive processes, with opponents of competitive grants citing a desire to reduce federal influence in favor of state and locally - driven education policies.

With that in mind, Rep. Randy Weber voted for the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, a current law that stemmed federal influence on student loans in 2013.

Although Jeff Duncan (R) does not issue many statements on student loans, his congressional record shows that he supported limiting federal influence in the past.

That's the old rallying cry of Alberta's firewall movement of the early 2000s, which urged the province to establish its own police force, pension fund and income tax collection, and to retreat from other areas of federal influence.

His real estate empire is now under a national microscope, its every deal scrutinized for hints of federal influence.

In a letter submitted to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the senators state that the changes are clearly an example of federal influence, «if not direct control,» over standards.

When it comes to education (and higher education), Republican Larry Bucshon generally supports limiting federal influence.

While the original sagebrush rebellion grew out of conflicts over management of federal lands, often as specific as keeping a forest road open, the new takeover movement owes more to «tea party» politics, with a strong focus on reducing the scope of federal influence and opening land to more users.