Almost all educators and commentators shake their heads in disbelief: Has Mr. Duncan, already under heavy fire
for federal intrusions into state and local K - 12 education policies, completely lost his senses?
Not exact matches
In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines
for network
intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as
federal crimes.
Republicans have railed
for years against
federal intrusion in state government — and especially public education.
The political assault on Goals 2000 in a number of states (the governors of Virginia, California, Alabama, and New Hampshire refused to accept Goals 2000 funds because of the «
federal intrusion» and «strings» that accompanied it), coupled with simultaneous efforts in Congress to abolish both Goals 2000 and the Department of Education, also contributed to a widespread view that tough enforcement would be a particularly hazardous course of action
for the department to pursue.
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For the
federal government to require districts to open up their boundaries would be a level of
federal intrusion into the affairs of states and local districts far beyond anything» in current law, Mr. Carey said.
Washington — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivered what's become her standard prescription
for K - 12 education — school choice, state flexibility, and rollback of
federal intrusion — to a roomful of state school board members gathered
for a legislative conference here Monday.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday directed his state board of education to back out of a consortium developing one of the Common Core benchmark tests and review the standards
for ways to strengthen them and prevent «
federal intrusion.»
It is now both Republicans and Democrats who are questioning the Core, though the Republican voice is louder and more official: The Republican National Committee just passed an anti-Common Core resolution, saying that the initiative is a
federal intrusion on states» rights, and Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa just started a bid to to eliminate
federal funding
for the core effort.
They were developed at the behest of the state governors and chief state school officers to avoid the charge of
federal intrusion — which came nonetheless after the Obama administration advocated
for the CCSS in the Race to the Top funding competition and provided the financing
for the Common Core testing consortia.
The reference to «computer
intrusion» is not precise, but may mean that they suspect a violation of some provision of 18 USC 1030, which makes it a
federal crime to access a computer without authorization, or to exceed authorized access, under certain circumstances and
for certain purposes.
The Inquiry Committee suggests that it is fundamentally inappropriate and an improper
intrusion on judicial independence
for its process to be subjected to interlocutory judicial review before the
Federal Court:
I agree with the Court that the language of this statute (1) gives the Administrator only discretionary authority to make apportionments; (2) does not, on its face, bar States from using veterans» benefits as the basis
for child support orders where no such apportionment has been made or denied; and (3) should not be construed to have that as its purpose, in light of the presumption against
federal intrusion into the field of family law.