Sentences with phrase «limited role of the federal government»

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

, 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.

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 any case, those who do not divulge financial information to their members may be engaged in egregious behaviour but if one supports recognition of self - government, then, as I've said in earlier articles, the role of the federal government should be limited to «a policy of no - policy.»