Sentences with phrase «of federal control over education»

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Common Core is a heavy - handed, top down, bureaucratic style program that invests the Federal Government in Washington with total control over childrens» education in all parts of the country.

Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.

Rodriguez thus belongs to a long line of federal cases emphasizing the value of state and local control over public education.

Both regulations were clearly beyond the purview of the federal government and not in keeping with the spirit of ESSA, which, ostensibly, sought to restore some control over education to the states.

That sector deals with adults and, hence, has been less prone to regulation than K — 12 education, but it has nonetheless become increasingly subject to federal controls, including through accreditation and a Sword of Damocles — separation from student aid — hanging over institutions that, regardless of the mix of students they serve, do not meet federal performance metrics.

Last week's annual Gallup poll on education repeated a frequent finding: Comfortable majorities of Americans agree local school boards should have far more control over what schools teach than state or federal governments.

So it is ironic that the left, which has made right - wing anti-government arguments, and made common cause with Republicans to scale back federal control over education, has settled on a public message of attacking liberal reformers as crypto - allies of the GOP.

Oklahoma will not lose control over a portion of its federal funding next year, according to state officials, who announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Education has restored the state's waiver from the 2001 accountability law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Federal control over education has been growing since the 1960s despite the fact that the word education does not appear in the Constitution of the United States.

This group sees the Common Core as federal intrusion into state and local control over education because of the Obama administration's support of the Common Core in Race to the Top.

The newly named Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaces No Child Left Behind, strips the federal government of much of its control over education.

However, since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1950 and continuing to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Department of Education's Race to the Top initiative of 2009, the federal government has taken and maintained increased control over schools through mandates, incentives, and funding.

Local communities (parents), counties, states, and the federal government struggle for control over control of the education system.

Marlin Stutzman has a consistent record of standing with Hoosier parents and students and supporting policies that reduce federal control over education.

But it also calls for greater local control over school districts, criticizing some of the Obama administration's federal efforts to make changes to the education system through programs like Race to The Top.

While the law marked a high water mark of federal control over K - 12 education, it was still, relatively speaking, not far from the ocean floor.

The piece explains that it is «customary for federal agencies to issue detailed regulations on how new laws should be put into effect,» but notes that «some lawmakers from both parties saw» ED's regulations «as unusually aggressive and far - reaching, and said they could subvert ESSA's intent of re-establishing local control over education and decreasing the emphasis on testing.»

In a letter submitted to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the senators state that the changes are clearly an example of federal influence, «if not direct control,» over standards.

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They say if passed, the legislation would strip away their rights and give the federal government too much control over the education of their children.