Sentences with phrase «federal overreach on»

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Past overreach on IR and current political realities combined to mute the federal government's options in terms of the new «super union».

A defiant Donald Trump has pledged to appeal against a federal judge's order placing an immediate halt on his revised travel ban, describing the ruling as judicial overreach that made the United States look weak.

While currently blocked by the federal judiciary, the group says the Clean Power Plan should be redrawn to address concerns about regulatory overreach and the possibility of infringing on state authority.

As such, the sovereignty of the each is passed on not by the governor general or federal parliament, but through the overreaching Crown itself as a part of the executive, legislative, and judicial operations in Canada's

Former U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long blasted the federal government's «shameful overreach» in the case of Dinesh D'Souza, the prominent conservative commentator who pleaded guilty on Tuesday in connection to campaign finance violations.

«This issue was a very huge example of the Obama administration's overreach, to suggest one - size - fits - all, federal government approach,» DeVos said on Thursday at the conservative conference CPAC.

It's official: Federal policymakers across the political spectrum are finally willing to admit that Congress overreached when it passed No Child Left Behind and put Uncle Sam in the driver's seat on education accountability.

Five years on, I see it more as a monument to paper promises, bureaucratic ineptitude, and federal overreach.

In this forum, Dan Losen of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA argues that the directive must remain in place in order to eliminate harm from unjustified discipline, and Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute makes the case that the directive is based on an inaccurate understanding of discipline data and amounts to an overreach of federal power.

It quickly became a liability to hold teachers accountable for results on tests they had never seen before, and much of the Republican establishment seized on Common Core as the embodiment of federal overreach.

The «federal overreach» critique of Race to the Top typically cites two things: the feds «forced» their hand - picked list of reforms on the country (see also «too prescriptive» above) and the feds «coerced» states to adopt the Common Core.

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

Today, NCLB is despised by some parents who blame it for schools «teaching to the test,» protested by some on the left for promoting education reform and reviled by Republicans in Congress who say the law represents aggressive federal overreach.

Gov. Bobby Jindal tried to block the test and the Common Core standards, saying they represented federal overreach, and some parents have chosen to boycott the tests based on political convictions or a concern the tests are useless or even harmful.

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.

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.

On the whole, the new guidance from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is another example of executive overreach and federal interference run amok.

My experience traveling to red states to testify on the Common Core has shown me that about 98 percent of this debate — on the right, at least — is about federal overreach.

The power of federal taxation clearly is a power of the federal government, but nonetheless some conservatives — sensitized by numerous overreaches during the Obama era in the area of education — are urging that any national scholarship tax credit be subject to approval on a state - by - state basis.

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

According to the Daily Caller, Paul, who doesn't think the federal Department of Education should even exist, conceded at a National Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday that his request for more reading time is a strategy to hold up a bill he sees as an overreach by the federal government.

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.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

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.

Establish local school boards» authority and curb overreach by ED on issues that impact local school districts unless specifically authorized in federal legislation;

A backlash to the federal government's reliance on local testing was taking hold, and Republicans who had previously supported more «accountability» — read: testing — now decried those same tests as government overreach.

That is why it is unconstructive for the Fordham Institute to imply that it is federal overreach to investigate discipline occurrences not just based on individual complaints but also on disparate rates of discipline.

The evidence and the grassroots have for years been consistent about federal overreach, obvious pay - for - play and a regrettable revolving door that recycles corporate puppets of elite donors to experiment on live children using junk science while ignoring proven educators.

The waiver package sparked a debate on the Education Department's policymaking limits, with Republican members of Congress calling the move a federal overreach.

Much of the misinformation centers on the perceived role of the federal government in this state - led effort, with some characterizing the Common Core as national standards and an example of federal overreach that usurps state and local decision making about what and how students should learn.

«AB 1147 would have reined in the overreach by federal authorities that has prevented the nondrug industrial hemp varieties of cannabis from being grown on U.S. soil for fiber and seed,» Steenstra said.

«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.