Sentences with phrase «handed federal role»

Furthermore, he won't be able to get enough Republican votes — in either the Senate or the House — if his rewrite maintains a heavy - handed federal role in education.

Unlike, say, Jonah Edelman, who just last week likened critics of today's heavy - handed federal role in education to the states - rights segregationists of the 1950s, Duncan found a way to disagree with Republicans without being disagreeable.

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.

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«On the other hand, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) is responsible for all land operations and will continue to exercise that role and as may be directed by the President, Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria through the Minister of Defence, the CDS or directly to the COAS as the case may be.

The first new version of the nation's main K - 12 law since 2002 rolls back the direct federal role in improving student outcomes and hands much of that power to governors and legislatures.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

«Only though a clearly defined and appropriate federal role, a willingness to explore a revised charge of the U.S. Department of Education, and placing primary responsibility for education in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local levels.»

If you want to understand why a strong federal role is needed in advancing systemic reform of American public education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.

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