Sentences with phrase «federal overreach»

«Common Core is a prime example of federal overreach into academic standards which have been traditionally set by the states and localities,» said Sergio Gor, a spokesman for Paul.

The state wants to avoid a repeat of run - ins that the state had with the Obama administration over testing requirements and what Gov. Jerry Brown considered as federal overreach in prescribing how states must fix schools.

Bush's challenge is that he has thus far failed to reassure conservatives that he takes seriously their concerns about federal overreach when it comes to the Common Core.

While the vast majority of K - 12 spending is done by state and local governments, the bulging layers of bureaucracy that administer education policy are the direct result of federal overreach into our education system.

«Not only is what you're doing against the law, the way you're trying to do it is against another provision in the law,» Alexander told King, citing new «disturbing evidence» that the Obama administration is ignoring the curbs on federal overreach in education he claims are in the new law.

«Local governments seeking to protect their immigrant communities from federal overreach have every right to do so.»

ESSA represents federal overreach into state education systems and should not be promoted to the public by the department.

From the get - go, the program has been reviled on Capitol Hill as Exhibit A for those arguing against federal overreach in K - 12 education.

Though the Common Core was an initiative originally led by state governors, the bulk of the criticisms today concern perceived federal overreach via Race to the Top in influencing what students should know and be able to do.

As I argued at the time, it was federal overreach on steroids.

Two years ago, we deemed this approach «Reform Realism,» and we still think it offers the best hope for threading the needle between federal overreach and federal inaction.

There could be modest gains: Republicans would have more leeway to hammer on President Barack Obama's education policies, which they see as aggressive federal overreach.

He favors «reducing federal overreach in higher education» for «increased transparency to protect students and taxpayers.»

The interesting — and paradoxical — upshot here is that the greatest hope for the continuation of an active federal government in K — 12 schooling is highly able and highly responsible states: if states handle their ESEA waivers well, then there will be no need for ED to slap wrists and therefore no additional fuel for those claiming federal overreach.

Fourth, on the regulatory front, the President issued a wholly unnecessary executive order instructing Ms. DeVos to review the Education Department's existing regulations with an eye toward curbing federal overreach.

The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican who frequently sues the Democratic Obama administration, said he was pleased with a decision against «illegal federal overreach.»

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sued to overturn the ban and New Jersey's case was heard in December with lawyers arguing that it constituted federal overreach.

«I'm fighting tooth - and - nail against this unconstitutional federal overreach, and HUD has cut funds to us like they just did to Syracuse,» Astorino says in the video.

Astorino had been at loggerheads with the federal government during the process, alleging federal overreach.

The law has split the Right between those who cheer accountability and those who jeer federal overreach and insufficient attention to school choice.

Two fates are to be avoided: our conservative successors» looking back on this NCLB rewrite and asking, «How did they not end federal overreach?»

But when the specifics of the regulations were published in draft form in October 2016, they were criticized by congressional Republicans and union leaders as an example of burdensome federal overreach.

Several illustrative examples of proposed federal overreach are provided below.

But from 2007 to 2014, there were drastic changes in the political landscape: The tea party moved politics at large to the right, and Obamacare ignited concerns about federal overreach across the government.

Those on the right increasingly believe that the Common Core represents severe federal overreach into state sovereignty over education; those on the left, including the AFT, are pushing back not against the standards themselves, but against their implementation and use in newly adopted high - stakes teacher evaluation systems.

As a result, the Common Core got enmeshed in partisan debates and concerns about Obama - style federal overreach.

Still, the benefits of closing the book on the No Child Left Behind / Race to the Top chapter of federal overreach outweigh the risks.

Provisions in the rule violate ESSA and constitute the type of federal overreach Congress specifically prohibits the Department from undertaking.

Tom on Point: Red flag on ESSA backsliding Thomas J. Gentzel NSBA Executive Director Tom Gentzel discusses how federal overreach is creeping back into the new federal education law.

NSBA hopes to work with the new secretary in clawing back some of the excessive federal overreach in recent years and ensuring successful implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Most states have adopted the Common Core, which have become a polarizing symbol of federal overreach despite starting as a state - led initiative, but Oklahoma repealed those standards earlier this year.

This directive is an example of unlawful executive action and inappropriate federal overreach into local and state issues.

Fed up with what they see — legitimately — as all - consuming federal overreach, the Congress seeks to move the center of gravity back to the states.

Others also have pointed out that the legislation lacks enforcement mechanisms preventing USDE from continued federal overreach.

Referring to what he views as extreme federal overreach, the committee's top Republican, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), repeatedly called the Harkin bill the «national school system» and said Congress is becoming the national school board.

However, there remains extensive and coercive federal overreach under ESSA.

Some critics have argued the Common Core is federal overreach because it was endorsed by the Obama administration during the Race To The Top initiative, which incentivized states to adopt more rigorous standards.

«The action I'm taking today will eliminate federal overreach, restore economic freedom and allow our companies and our workers to thrive, compete and succeed on a level playing field for the first time in a long time.

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States need to rise up against the egregious federal overreach.

Some originalists say that the historical purpose underlying the Second Amendment — to enable state militias to resist federal overreach — requires that common citizens (would - be militiamen) may possess whatever armaments might be needed to resist the national government by force.

While the subject of nullification has popped up even in mainstream media discussions in recent years, jury nullification is something that is rarely heard of, even among constitutionalists and supporters of the right of the states to oppose federal overreaching.

They argue that this application of the law, and specifically the concept of disparate impact, is a «quintessential example of gross federal overreach.»

But there are probably lots of others who will read the letter and fume about federal overreach.

While Secretary Duncan gave early, encouraging indications that he supported such an approach, in recent years, regrettably, his department has moved ahead with an aggressive, constitutionally questionable policy of conditional waivers, leading to a fierce backlash against federal overreach.

Most of the early media attention given to ESSA has focused on its clear attempt to address the criticisms leveled at NCLB, including perceived federal overreach.

«Local governments seeking to protect their immigrant communities from federal overreach have every right to do so,» he said.

In fact, the initiatives that Clinton failed to pass because they were seen as federal overreach were less prescriptive than the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act — passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2001.