Sentences with phrase «from federal overreach»

Further (the Compact's attacks) damage the ability of their fellow Americans to save our great nation from Federal overreach and national bankruptcy.»

Bush et al. are now beautifully positioned to say, «We think the Common Core is good for our kids and our country, and that» s why we» re full - throated supporters — but that» s also why we need to protect it from federal overreach or partisan meddling by a Democratic administration.»

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states.

To protect Florida from the federal government's overreach in education policy, Governor Scott also sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, announcing the state's decision to withdraw from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).

However, budget cuts and proposals such as vouchers and other programs that divert essential funding from schools, along with federal government overreach, denigrates the amazing work taking place in what is arguably our most valuable institution.

But Kline couldn't incorporate such a provision without stoking claims of federal overreach from other movement conservatives; that the federal government couldn't mandate such a move even if either Kline or the Obama Administration wanted to also makes the entire effort an exercise in futility.

Corporate interests pushed the federal overreach of our laws in order to profit from public education, not to benefit public school children.

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

By the time the lawmakers returned from Easter recess, they had a deal: a bill that would keep NCLB's annual testing requirement but strip out much of the federal accountability that has led to cries of executive overreach from Republicans.

«This issue was a very huge example of the Obama administration's overreach to suggest a one - size - fits - all, federal - government approach, top - down approach to issues best dealt with at a personal level, at a local level,» DeVos said in response to a question from CNN contributor and Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany.

From a political point of view, the standards, to some, represent the age - old struggle between federal overreach and states» rights.

All of the defectors, so far, are states led by Republican governors who have taken considerable heat from tea party activists and GOP legislators who oppose Common Core as an overreach by the federal government.

Recent criticism of the proposed student aid prepaid card from the Office of Federal Student Aid raised questions about the FSA mandate and possible overreach in the student loan market.

«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.