Sentences with phrase «focused federal role»

«A bipartisan bill will not have everything that everyone wants, but it must build on our common interests: high standards; flexibility for states, school districts and schools; and a more focused federal role that promotes equity, accountability and reform,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement about Harkin's bill Tuesday.

It focuses the federal role on transparency instead of accountability.

Not exact matches

Last spring's federal budget, under the heading «Canada's Digital Future,» promised reviews of the key laws covering the entertainment and information industries — the Broadcasting Act, Telecommunications Act and Copyright Act — all with a focus on «the role of Canadian content in an increasingly digital world.»

The federal government has positioned Budget 2018 as having a substantial focus on women, and the role of gender in the economy.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 20 - hour trip to this island territory, meant to show solidarity with its financially struggling government, focused attention on the critical role the federal government will play in resolving the crisis.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

Even the Every Student Succeeds Act, the law's 2015 iteration, which reduces the federal role in school accountability, still insists that state and local governments focus attention on the lowest - performing schools.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

Recent back - and - forth over the Common Core has focused on the federal role.

Washington plays a role here, too, since the focus of the No Child Left Behind Act on low achievers and troubled schools, coupled with state and federal funding streams for special education, means that schools serving high achievers don't receive money that other public schools often do.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of that year (ESEA) 1, the embodiment of this new federal role, was the focus of high hope that it would bring about broad improvement in American education.

They did spend plenty of time attacking the aspects of No Child (and the federal role in education policy) that actually focus on helping all kids succeed.

After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).

Yet ongoing efforts to improve public education focus primarily on the role of teachers, principals, and superintendents and, to a lesser extent, on state and federal policymakers.

The law replaced the No Child Left Behind Act, which like Common Core was focused on testing and a federal role in K - 12 education.

At the time No Child Left Behind was passed, the federal role in education had been largely focused for 35 years on improving the education of the nation's disadvantaged children.

In his role, DeSchryver serves both public and private sector clients providing counsel on federal regulatory matters, budgetary and compliance matters; research and analysis on national policy issues; research and analysis on emerging markets in education services; and his current focus is on the emerging solutions to assess education productivity / yield on investment.

There are many dimensions of action affecting this moment in time — a renewed focus and emerging consensus regarding the kinds of learning outcomes essential for success in today's globally connected world; significant efforts to promote innovation affecting all facets of education, particularly regarding new teaching and learning strategies and opportunities; and a renewed focus on key elements of necessary systemic change, in which the roles of the federal government, the states, school systems and schools are better aligned and more coherently understood.

Key issues associated with how the federal government appropriately defines its role among the various actors (with an appropriate accountability focus that is neither too rigid or mechanical [ala NCLB] nor too amorphous to have real meaning) must be addressed over time.

«We also believe that the federal government has a vital role to play in protecting students with disabilities and in supporting data driven assessments that focus on growth over proficiency.»

The Housing Act of 1949 was significant and broad in its creation of a new federal role, but it was also instrumental in in establishing housing as a central policy focus.

In his role, Mr. Young represents businesses and individuals in federal and state civil actions, with a focus on multi-district antitrust class actions and working with economic experts.

This blawg focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court and the political and legal role it plays in the federal government.

And with a federal election underway, she said, it would be playing a role in trying to raise the access - to - justice issues it has been focusing on during the campaign.

The private and in - chambers exercise of writing jury instructions as a test for opinion clarity would serve to focus the justices on the important work of assigning more precise role definitions for federal trial judges.

Eighteen months ago, the focus at the federal level was very much on reforming the role of ATSIC.