Sentences with phrase «growing role of the federal government»

The bill «unfortunately continues to propagate the large and ever - growing role of the federal government in our education system — the same federal government that sold us failed top - down standards like Common Core,» Cruz, who didn't vote, said in a statement Wednesday.

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But there was growing uneasiness about the role of the federal government.

Dr. Michael Usdan, IEL senior fellow and former president, recounts the pivotal turns in the federal - state relationship throughout American history and offers a critical analysis of the growing federal role since the 1960s and the increasing influence and visibility of the federal government in education matters.

At the same time, I show how and why the role of the federal government in the governance of the American education system has grown dramatically in recent decades, to the point that, in practice if not in its rhetoric, the federal government has begun to act like a national school board.

First under George W. Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act, then under Barack Obama and a long list of intrusive initiatives, the federal government's role in education has metastasized, growing more and more aggressively in recent years.

Although the federal government contributes less than 10 percent of the funding for K - 12 schools — the rest comes from a mix of state and local funding — the federal role in our nation's schools has grown over time.

Only within the last half century has the complexity and size of the Federal Government's responsibilities grown so greatly that the Congress must rely on the legislative veto as the most effective, if not the only, means to insure its role as the Nation's lawmaker.