Sentences with phrase «federal intervention over»

Burke blames the national trend of lower scores on «increasing federal intervention over the past half - century... the resulting burden of complying with federal programs, rules, and regulations, have created a parasitic relationship with federal education programs and states, and is straining the time and resources of local schools.

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The debate over federal government intervention in school nutrition programs continues to be a point of contention in Congress.

Those who swear by it frequently invoke the results of Project Follow Through, the largest and most expensive educational research study ever mounted by the federal government, which compared the outcomes of over twenty different educational interventions in high - poverty communities over a multiyear period.

Governors, state education departments, legislatures, and the federal Congress have been unable to solve the nation's educational problems over the past half century, so why should anyone expect judicial interventions to achieve immediate, decisive results?

Despite general agreement on the need for federal intervention to improve the quality and supply of child care, speakers disagreed over the severity of the problem and how to resolve it.

As I've laid out before, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has several ambiguities that seem to keep the door open for continued federal control over state standards, tests, and accountability mechanisms, even as the law has some provisions that seem to prohibit federal intervention.

The problem to be solved in their eyes is not why increasing federal and state funds targeted to low - performing schools and students over 50 years has been generally ineffective, but how our educational institutions for K - 12 can address low achievement despite the fact that the various education interventions, strategies, policies, and regulations that policy makers in the U.S. Department of Education have imposed have mostly failed to move the needle.

The project, Reading Enhancements for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders (Project READ), received a $ 1.5 million federal grant, which will enable investigators to develop and test the intervention at elementary and middle schools in Texas and Southern California over a 3 - year period.

Like all states, Maryland has been working to create a plan for complying with the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which gives states renewed authority over school accountability while requiring standardized testing and interventions in low - performing schools.

He voted in support of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, so it is safe to assume that he trusts the private market over federal intervention when it comes to student loan interest rates.

In New Zealand, recent strengthening of the Māori health workforce has led to a number of successes: interventions led by, focused on, and targeted to Māori; consistent investment in Māori health over a prolonged period; and an emphasis on the development of dual cultural and clinical competencies.14 In the United States, successful Native American health service development in the early 1990s appears to have been shaped by federal government administration, the separation of the Indian Health Service from other Native American affairs, and provision of an integrated health service.15 In both countries, recent reductions in overall death rates for indigenous people have been noted; in the US this relates to injury prevention, whereas in NZ it relates to fewer deaths due to circulatory conditions.16 Although it is not known whether improved health services for indigenous peoples in the US and NZ have a causal relationship with decreased mortality, the two appear to «travel together» well.

There would be no federal intervention in WA's land rights legislation, no veto over mineral exploration, no mining royalty equivalents and no mention of lost lands.