Tom on Point: Red flag on ESSA backsliding Thomas J. Gentzel NSBA Executive Director Tom Gentzel discusses
how federal overreach is creeping back into the new federal education law.
Not exact matches
Fitzgerald Public School administrators say the new guidelines represent a maddening
overreach by distant
federal officials with little or no understanding of
how kids actually behave.
Unlike Common Core, Washington's micromanagement of what can and can not be served in school lunchrooms — half the kids in America are now eligible for these
federal subsidies — and whether and
how it can be seasoned truly constitute an example of
federal overreach.
Two fates are to be avoided: our conservative successors» looking back on this NCLB rewrite and asking, «
How did they not end
federal overreach?»
Some have cried foul over
how the
federal government incentivized the program, calling it
federal overreach.
Republicans are stuck debating whether, rather than
how, the
federal government ought to be involved in education, while Democrats are squeezed between superintendents, school boards and teachers» unions that want money with no strings, and activists with little patience for concerns about
federal overreach.
Much of the misinformation centers on the perceived role of the
federal government in this state - led effort, with some characterizing the Common Core as national standards and an example of
federal overreach that usurps state and local decision making about what and
how students should learn.