Sentences with phrase «of federal intervention in education»

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

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In 2004, «response to intervention» was introduced into federal special education law as a method of identifying children with learning disabilities.

Taken together, these recent developments confirm that public education is an area of virtually complete state power (although now subject to greater federal intervention) that can be reshaped by state legislatures in either a centralizing or decentralizing direction or in both directions at once.

«It's hard to reconcile the creation of a new program with reducing federal intervention in education,» Burke said.

The ESSA authorizes historically high levels of federal education spending, continuing a trend that has increased federal intervention in local school policy while failing to improve educational outcomes for children.

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

In fact, President Lyndon B. Johnson's support for, and the subsequent enactment of, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 — the first significant federal intervention into education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor childreIn fact, President Lyndon B. Johnson's support for, and the subsequent enactment of, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 — the first significant federal intervention into education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 — the first significant federal intervention into education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor childrein 1965 — the first significant federal intervention into education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor education programs and spending were not adequate for poor children.

«I see this as a good step toward limiting federal intervention in education and restoring state and local control,» said Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation.

Collaborating with other Federal, state and local agencies to avoid duplication of efforts in providing early intervention and preschool education.

The Education Department has already targeted Delaware, California, Texas and the District of Columbia for federal intervention because special education students in these jurisdictions are not doEducation Department has already targeted Delaware, California, Texas and the District of Columbia for federal intervention because special education students in these jurisdictions are not doeducation students in these jurisdictions are not doing well.

In combination, these initiatives have progressively increased the demands on teachers and their students and have laid the groundwork for what was to come next - an unprecedented federal intervention on state level education policy - making that directs all states toward a single goal (i.e., 100 % of students reaching «proficiency») via a single system of implementation (i.e., standards - based assessment and accountability).

«I'm concerned that states, with a combination of state politics and inertia, will not... do aggressive interventions for students in struggling schools,» said Chad Aldeman, a former federal education official who is now with Bellwether Education Partners, a Boston - based consulteducation official who is now with Bellwether Education Partners, a Boston - based consultEducation Partners, a Boston - based consulting firm.

The problem to be solved in their eyes is not why increasing federal and state funds targeted to low - performing schools and students over 50 years has been generally ineffective, but how our educational institutions for K - 12 can address low achievement despite the fact that the various education interventions, strategies, policies, and regulations that policy makers in the U.S. Department of Education have imposed have mostly failed to move theducation interventions, strategies, policies, and regulations that policy makers in the U.S. Department of Education have imposed have mostly failed to move thEducation have imposed have mostly failed to move the needle.

In response, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has suggested that the massive student boycotts of the Common Core tests as seen in New York is unacceptable, and if unchecked, could lead to federal intervention in our schools to ensure test compliancIn response, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has suggested that the massive student boycotts of the Common Core tests as seen in New York is unacceptable, and if unchecked, could lead to federal intervention in our schools to ensure test compliancin New York is unacceptable, and if unchecked, could lead to federal intervention in our schools to ensure test compliancin our schools to ensure test compliance.

Noting that education and regulation of the legal profession are matters of provincial jurisdiction, Saguil calls the federal government's intervention in the case «perplexing.»