Sentences with phrase «federal involvement in»

Bush is against federal involvement in local growth issues, but he doesn't rule out creating some federal tools for states and localities wrestling with congestion and loss of open space.

In short, LTCI offers the insured independence from state and federal involvement in their personal affairs following a triggering event.

[19] A good deal of jurisprudence has developed around the question of federal involvement in labour relations.

Many politicians that opposes the Department of Education and federal involvement in education support re-introducing private banks to the student loan industry for the first time since the financial crisis.

It is known that she supports limited federal involvement in general; however, the Pell Grant program she supports.

After characterizing federal involvement in higher education as «something that has only driven up higher education costs for students and families,» he would go on to say «politicians should not be in the business of setting interest rates.»

In 2009, he voted against the Student Aid & Fiscal Responsibility Act which ended up escalating federal involvement in higher education.

He supported the Student Success Act hints at his support for limiting federal involvement in student loan issue and college affordability.

Republican House Member Ken Calvert recognizes the need for federal involvement in education, but he wishes to do so in a way that «holds down overall spending.»

She solidified her position on federal involvement in higher education (and Pell Grants) when she supported the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act.

Both the Senate and House versions of the legislation would lessen federal involvement in schools and would turn over power to the states to assess school performance.

In the Every Student Succeeds Act, Congress for the first time in decades rolled back federal involvement in K - 12 education and specifically ruled out any incentives or punishments for adopting or getting out of Common Core.

Romney reiterated his strong support for school choice, the importance of effective teachers, and scaling back federal involvement in education.

These two statements alone would constitute a powerful marker that could help restrain future officials, but federal legislators would also need to strengthen the firewalls around curriculum and instruction by adding language that explicitly prohibits federal involvement in setting state standards.

In contrast, the Republic Party platform demands the end of federal involvement in the American educational system in favor of «choice - based parent driven accountability.»

Now I mention this because we are now in our fifth decade of ESEA — nearly half a century of education reform and direct federal involvement in this state and local issue.

Tucker's NCEE is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that crusades for ever - increasing federal involvement in every aspect of education while denying its brazen lobbying activities.»

But Common Core has become a lightning rod for those concerned about too much testing, overly rigid teaching methods and federal involvement in education.

But the perception of federal involvement in the Common Core has persisted, with political ramifications.

It is possible that since the start of major federal involvement in the mid 1960s, no one person or law — not even George W. Bush or the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)-- has centralized education power as much as Obama has.

After all, even principled conservatives skeptical of federal involvement in education can see a role for Washington when it comes to research, and one that is entirely consistent with the genius of American government.

The Every Student Succeeds Act really scales back Federal involvement in education after the perceived heavy - handedness of NCLB.

Not all has worked entirely as planned, but people are not arguing to end federal involvement in the charter sector.

After holding a series of hearings, which for the most part seemed aimed at confirming his sense that federal involvement in education has gone too far, and traveling around the country seeking further affirmation from parents, teachers and administrators, Representative Kline is ready to begin.

After No Child Left Behind established a high watermark for federal involvement in education, the new bill slashes the federal role by historic proportions, experts say.

The Obama administration kept its distance because of a general wariness at both the district and state levels of federal involvement in education.

Not to be outdone, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the education committee's top Republican, released a competing NCLB rewrite that significantly rolls back federal involvement in education compared to the Harkin bill.

In addition, nine Republican senators sent a letter to leading Senate appropriators urging them to eliminate federal involvement in state decisions on academic content standards.

Proponents of greater state and federal involvement in school construction had to fight the longstanding assumption that local districts should bear the financial burden of constructing and renovating elementary and secondary school facilities.

«We're going to have some independence from the federal government, federal involvement in education,» Schneider added.

President Obama signed a new K - 12 education law on Thursday that effectively ends heavy federal involvement in public schools and sends much of that authority back to states and local school districts.

Have we come full circle after fifty years of federal involvement in the schools — from local and state control before ESEA back to local and state control under ESSA?

Nonetheless, greater equity in schooling has undoubtedly been achieved by federal involvement in education.

The era also saw the beginning of a new federal involvement in education that would spread out in all directions in the coming years.

Despite the lack of federal involvement in developing the Common Core standards, the U.S. Department of Education has supported them by:

Lastly, NCLB «s promise of a substantial increase in student academic achievement has not been materialized, and the law's pressure on teachers to raise test scores has backfired into resentment of federal involvement in schooling.

And, experts say, recognizing that accepted «norms» — among them, a strong federal involvement in American schools, such as No Child Left Behind and Common Core — were anything but normal, in a system that for the majority of its history has been under state and local control.

This is not to argue that Mann desired federal control, but in the common school model the germs of federal involvement in education are visible.

I consider Mike a friend, but I find it troubling that he and others seem willing to walk away from his good policy ideas simply because the political winds today are less friendly to federal involvement in education policy.

The Every Student Succeeds Act is now expected to replace NCLB as the newest version of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, an overarching law that defines federal involvement in K - 12 education.

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

Federal policymakers should likewise resist further federal involvement in education and should:

Pressure by the Obama Administration, using the carrot of incentives (RTTT) and the stick of proposed penalties (denial of access to Title I funding), to induce states to sign on to the common standards initiative raises serious questions about further federal involvement in standards - setting and assessments.

It is the regrettable consequence of that approach that motivated increased federal involvement in the first place.

What lessons have been learned from the past half - century of federal involvement in education?

In a fairly clever Game of Thrones - inspired column, Andy Rotherham depicted federal involvement in schooling as a «hedge» against inequity.

This year, however, the GOP platform makes clear that there should be as little federal involvement in education as possible.

Moreover, as McCluskey noted, even the Friedman survey downplays the extent of federal involvement in pushing Common Core.

Before 1965, the 10th Amendment seemed to prevail over the 14th, and federal involvement in K — 12 education was minimal.

«On the right, the Common Core is really a proxy fight over Obamacare and concerns about slippery slopes and federal involvement in state and local self - determination,» says Hess.