Sentences with phrase «federal overreach into»

«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 move sparked a deluge of 4,800 mostly critical letters, calling out federal overreach into state affairs and denouncing reforms that would «extend the «test and punish» accountability model into higher education.»

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.

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.

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.

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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.

We agree that we should say «yes» to high standards for Florida students and «no» to the federal government's overreach into our education system.

The new Common Core tests — designed to set and evaluate common benchmarks nationwide — appear to have fueled that frustration and brought new voices into the coalition opposing tests, including some conservatives who decry the Common Core as federal overreach.

Critics of the Obama administration's Department of Education repeatedly targeted what they saw as federal «overreach» into local districts.

The basis for the decision was mostly due to local government being deemed to have overreached into the arena of immigration enforcement - an area explicitly reserved for the Federal government.)