Sentences with phrase «local education decisions»

What lessons are there about local education decisions that need to be considered at national level?

Despite lengthy and sometimes raucous debate, Republicans reiterated their firm commitment to reducing the federal government's role in local education decision making.

Local education decisions traditionally have been the provenance of states and local districts, but Bush led the way for more federal involvement — requiring students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school to take standardized tests for school «accountability» purposes.

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

Chairman Kline reiterated the four priorities that guided his ESEA bills» development in the last Congress: restoring local control, reducing the federal footprint in local education decisions, improving teacher effectiveness, and empowering parents.