Sentences with phrase «limited federal role»

The self - stated goals of the bill are to: 1) promote innovation, access, and completion; 2) simplify and improve student aid; 3) empower students and families to make informed decisions; and 4) ensure strong accountability and a limited federal role.

In support of this theory, he voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which limited federal role in determining student loan interest rates.

Chairman John Kline (R - MN) suggested that his two proposals «strike a more appropriate balance between the need for a limited federal role to ensure transparency and the demand for state and local control.»

Use the limited federal role to push for K - 12, higher education, and workforce alignment.

Everyone envisions a limited federal role!

In 2000, CSDC formed an ad - hoc coalition of stakeholders and spearheaded the effort to create a limited federal role in assisting charter schools with the twin challenge of acquiring and financing facilities.

Mitt Romney, Mehta said, was forced to balance his track record of overhauls at the state level with the Republican Party's desire to have a «limited federal role in education.»

Republicans seized control of the U.S. House of Representatives and significantly bolstered their majorities in the Senate in Tuesday's election, an outcome that will almost certainly mean an end to emergency education aid to states and will heighten pressure for a more limited federal role in K - 12 policy.

That's in keeping with the mandate from Congress, which just over a year ago updated the major K - 12 law to expressly limit the federal role in education.

We look forward to supporting new legislation that empowers states and appropriately limits the federal role.»

Indicators lead one to believe that Rep. Amash supports limiting the federal role in funding higher education for more state and local control.

Not exact matches

This practice raised questions about whether the company complied with federal election law that limits the roles played by non-U.

Responding affirmatively in a letter to the editor published the next day, NAHB Chairman Kevin Kelly said that Rep. Carney's House bill to maintain a proper federal role in housing would encourage the private market to take a greater role in the mortgage marketplace and provide stability and liquidity for homeownership while limiting taxpayer exposure in the event of another downturn.

While there is a role for State / Federal involvement in local school food service, it is IMHO limited to [1] providing funding, especially to lower - income schools, to allow all schools to meet a minimum standard (NOT based on the needs of agri - business!

In general, those who follow an originalist philosophy of legal interpretation tend to view the legal role of the federal government in a more limited manner than those who do not.

And it is ironic indeed, that it is Germany and Merkel who are resisting a more federal role for the ECB while at the same time demanding some «limited» Treaty change (which will be on the table at the EU's December summit) so that stronger sanctions can be imposed on those breaking eurozone rules.

An important difference between National Guard and the Federal Army, Air and Navy forces is that the Posse Comitatus Act severely limits the roles for the Federal forces1, banning them from being used to enforce laws2 in most of the situations.

Let me once again state that the role of the CBN as banker to the Federal Government is to do exactly what we have done and within the limits specified by law.

The federal government has a limited but important role to play regarding the Internet.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is, by design, a reactive organization charged with stepping in when local and state resources are inadequate, and its direct policy role is limited.

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

For six years, the Obama administration, breaking with generations of practice, gave every indication that it saw few limits to the role of the federal government in primary and secondary schooling.

In my view, the federal government should have a limited role in advancing school choice through policy (military choice, the D.C. scholarship program, and choice for children attending BIE schools being among the few exceptions).

Indeed, a coalition of civil rights groups recently raised concerns about new federal CTE legislation because of what they see as a too - limited role for Uncle Sam in ensuring underserved populations don't get tracked into low - quality «voc - tech» programs.

Yet, at the same time, Republicans in Washington are embracing the worst elements of the teachers unions» national education agenda, by insisting that the federal government should have a limited, possibly nonexistent, role in school policy.

In the principles, the groups highlight the important and historic role the federal government has played during the 50 years since the ESEA was originally passed in promoting educational opportunity and protecting the rights and interests of students disadvantaged by discrimination, poverty, and other conditions that may limit their educational attainment.

GOP policy makers traditionally favor school choice and limiting the role of federal government in schools.

While the judiciary helped to shape federal special education laws, it now plays a surprisingly limited role in their implementation - in part because of the development of quasi-judicial administrative procedures to channel disputes.

In my view, it's been a fairly limited role, but I appreciate that, for some conservatives, any federal involvement is too much.

«As a result, we are pleased to see that the latest version of the bill recognizes that the federal government's role is limited in this arena.»

«Nor can we limit accountability to a small percentage of our schools while ignoring the others, thereby retreating from the long - standing federal role in ensuring that minority students, low - income students, English learners and students with disabilities have access to... supports that address a range of student needs so that they are better prepared to succeed in the classroom.»

But while some of the nation's most prominent education lobby groups are backing the bill, there is apprehension from others that lawmakers might have overreacted to political pressure to limit the role of the federal government — considerably weakening Washington's ability to step in if a state fails to address its most troubled schools.

The federal government's role in elementary and secondary education should be limited: It should work to create transparency so that parents can see how their local schools measure up; it should support policies that have a proven record; and it should make sure states can't ignore students who need extra help.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

NCLB defined a limited but assertive federal role — schools were required to show improvement on standardized tests of reading and math for every subgroup of students or face penalties.

School choice is typically a state and local issue, although there are a few limited options for a federal role.

, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, to talk about the federal government's role in education and express her support for Foxx's efforts to ensure that its influence is limited.

Please read our issue brief for more details about Common Core and NSBA's support for a limited role for the federal government.

I support a limited role of the federal government in education to facilitate the education of students who are significantly more expensive to educate, such as disabled students, English language learners, and students from very disadvantaged backgrounds.

The bill maintains a limited oversight role for the federal government — what Murray calls «guardrails» — that aims to ensure equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged students.

At the end of 2015, Congress passed NCLB's successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which limits the federal government's role in shaping school accountability, and gives states considerably more discretion to craft their own plans.

DeVos» limited understanding of IDEA seems to presage a global ignorance of the role of the federal government in ensuring accountability for special needs kids, as well as other traditionally - disenfranchised groups like low - income students, students of color, and English - language learners.

In all cases the Federal role will be that of a minority investor, with Federal participation limited to not more than 33 percent of total project costs.

In general, House Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer (R) wants to limit the «size and scope of the federal role in education.»

In the event of a incident response, sanctuary staff, in coordination with other agencies, may perform a number of roles, including but not limited to contacting key federal, state, and local entities, mobilizing sanctuary assets for response, and providing detailed information on sensitive sanctuary resources to aid in their protection.

If the U.S. government thought NASA climate scientist James Hansen has been a thorn in its side, just wait until he quits his job and becomes a full - time activist ready to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions.

Danny, the Federal government is supposed to have a limited role.

Key uncertainties looking forward include: 1) the extent to which proposed adaptation strategies will be implemented given a range of factors including competing demands and limited funding; 2) the role of the private sector and individual action in adaptation, roles which can be difficult to document; 3) the extent of the federal role in adaptation planning and implementation; and 4) how changes in technology and the world economy may change the feasibility of specific adaptation strategies.11

It noted that ``... the federal role in implementing innovations in the provision of legal aid is limited as legal aid programs are within provincial and territorial jurisdiction.

Not the best qualtities for a federal bench that should have a limited role in public and social disputes.