Sentences with phrase «local control of education»

The bipartisan bill represented a movement toward local control of education.

Going back to a system of total local control of education will ensure that American schools are not good enough for tomorrow's world.

We will work to reduce the ever increasing, unconstitutional federal interventions in local educational policy (including national, one - size - fits - all curriculum, school lunch mandates, special education requirements, federal involvement in school discipline, etc.) Balance of Accountability & Reasonableness in Assessments FCSBM believes in local control of education decisions with reasonable state oversight and accountability.

There is a strong tradition of local control of education in America.

Mulverhill, a Republican, sketched out the broad contours of his platform, including combatting heroin, increasing local control of education, infrastructure development and ethics reform.

The dramatic shift has been partially attributed to First Nations peoples (a term that replaced the word «Indians» in the 1970s) gaining local control of education in 1973 and changing the on - reserve school system from a more traditional education to one mixed with First Nations history, culture, and values.

One, filed by National Education Association - New Mexico in 2014, argued that it subverted local control of education.

Many Teacher Team members pledged that their tenure as Secretary of Education would emphasize local control of education.

(There is, of course, a tension between the idea of the federal government intervening to encourage states and cities to adopt school vouchers programs and the idea that we need more local control of education, but Trump is not really the kind of policy detail guy who is bothered by this kind of thing.)

The Trump administration should honor the idea of state and local control of education contained in ESSA.

President Trump is violating his pledge to respect state and local control of education by proposing to shift funds from regular public schools to charter schools and private schools.

We support local control of education, so if this proposed formula passes into law, we urge policymakers to review the 27 percent rule in the future — perhaps in conjunction with broader tax reform — to shift more education spending back to localities.

We encourage everyone to attend to show support for continued progress under Alabama's own education standards while preserving local control of education.

The following are specific areas in which the proposed regulations are egregious in their attempts to impose a common, Federal education system, stripping parents and SEAs of what little local control of education remains, and in many ways contradicts and undermines the law in which they are intended to provide guidance...

Advocacy We serve our members by being advocates for public schools, for local control of education, and for the leadership and legal authority of school boards.

Many supporters of federalism and a return to local control of education also argue cronyism infiltrates public education when wealthy private donors pour much - desired dollars into public projects, demanding attention paid to their pet projects.

Again, the platform praises local control of education and eschews the federal role repeatedly.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, «who made a career of promoting local control of education, has signaled a surprisingly hard - line approach to carrying out an expansive new federal education law, issuing critical feedback that has rattled state school chiefs and conservative education experts alike,» the New York Times reports.

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in poverty.

Some people say Indiana should withdraw from Common Core because they think the Common Core standards aren't as high as Indiana's previous standards and they are concerned about the loss of local control of education.

Local control of education — like giving states the ability to decide on their own standards and assessments — requires local responsibility.

Seems to me that an administration that cares about choice, about achievement, about state and local control of education, and about restoring the proper role of the federal government with regard to civil rights now has ample reason — maybe even urgent reason — to make known its views and take corrective action.

The administration had rightly sought reductions in that budget, aiming to begin the process of restoring state and local control of education.

Local control of education is an honorable mantra but its track record, too, is pretty bleak.

The White House stressed that it's «committed to local control of education.»

In the background, too, is our knee - jerk obeisance to «local control of education,» whatever that may mean in 2011.

Bush's NCLB and Obama's Race to the Top were seen as federal mandates, disrespectful of state and local control of education.

The Public's Alternative The public strongly prefers state and local control of education: 70 % or more supports states and local school districts deciding funding, textbook, accountability, and testing issues.

Local control of education has been tried before and found wanting.

The website is focused on primarily the Common Core and the PARCC test, local control of education, quality standards, teachers given the ability to practice their profession, and to reduce the emphasis on high - stakes testing.

«It maintains protections against bullying, while allowing for the safety and privacy of ALL students by demonstrating trust in local control of education.»

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing...

Likewise, local control of education has been seriously eroded and has become a thing of the past by the new federal Common Core standards.

What is clear is that the massive advertising campaign was designed to reward Governor Malloy and pressure legislators to support Malloy's efforts to expand charter schools and undermine the local control of education.

Very soon, there will be zero local control of education.

As far as the corporate education reformers are concerned, the end justifies the means and if the cost of getting what you want requires destroying our nation's age - old commitment to local control of education, so be it.

Governors and state superintendents all across the country collaborated to create it, reflecting our national ideals of state and local control of education.