Sentences with phrase «federal intervention in education»

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

For opponents of federal interventions in education policy, the ruling offers hope that power has swung back to the states.

In 2013, Burke was also named the Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy, devoting her time and research to reducing federal intervention in education at all levels and empowering families with education choice.

«I see this as a good step toward limiting federal intervention in education and restoring state and local control,» said Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation.

But there are certain reforms that can and should be taken by the administration and Congress because they are under the purview of the federal government or would begin the process of unwinding federal intervention in education; in little more than a year, the Trump administration has made considerable strides in that direction.

It appeared that while leaders recognized that there was an issue that needed to be addressed, anything that smacked of federal intervention in education remained something of a third rail that no member of Congress wanted to touch.

«It's hard to reconcile the creation of a new program with reducing federal intervention in education,» Burke said.

Fellow candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry wrote a section railing against «federal intervention in education» in his recent book.