Sentences with phrase «of federal overreach»

«Common Core is a prime example of federal overreach into academic standards which have been traditionally set by the states and localities,» said Sergio Gor, a spokesman for Paul.

The NPR piece drove home the point that standards themselves can only accomplish so much: «Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach,» Garland wrote, «they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test - makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education.»

Still, the benefits of closing the book on the No Child Left Behind / Race to the Top chapter of federal overreach outweigh the risks.

The furious charges of federal overreach?

While the vast majority of K - 12 spending is done by state and local governments, the bulging layers of bureaucracy that administer education policy are the direct result of federal overreach into our education system.

First, the move to common standards has all the hallmarks of the first lunge of federal overreach — in his words, the «thin end of an enormous wedge.»

It quickly became a liability to hold teachers accountable for results on tests they had never seen before, and much of the Republican establishment seized on Common Core as the embodiment of federal overreach.

Rather than a case of federal overreach, the CRDC allows the federal government to empower state and local education providers to improve their policies and provides parents, policymakers, and advocates the tools to hold schools accountable.

But lessons of federal overreaching are never learned, and so he's back with a new initiative: protecting student athletes from the damaging effects of concussions.

Alexander noted that the law did a pretty fair job of slamming the door on decades of federal overreach and reshaping the national education landscape.

On the campaign trail, President Trump often called for giving more discretion over education policy to states and localities, critiquing Common Core and what he viewed as other instances of federal overreach.

Provisions in the rule violate ESSA and constitute the type of federal overreach Congress specifically prohibits the Department from undertaking.

But as the standards have been introduced into classrooms — in some cases accompanied by notable shifts in math instruction and a much more heavy emphasis on non-fiction texts in English classes — parents have raised questions and conservative advocacy groups have jumped on board with warnings of federal overreach and a loss of local control.

His tactics led to accusations of federal overreach.

Most states have adopted the Common Core, which have become a polarizing symbol of federal overreach despite starting as a state - led initiative, but Oklahoma repealed those standards earlier this year.

Critics said the law amounted to untenable and unacceptable levels of federal overreach, and ultimately did little to close academic achievement gaps.

Unlike Common Core, Washington's micromanagement of what can and can not be served in school lunchrooms — half the kids in America are now eligible for these federal subsidies — and whether and how it can be seasoned truly constitute an example of federal overreach.

Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach, they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test - makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education, not make it worse.

Still, closing the book on the No Child Left Behind / Race to the Top chapter of federal overreach will mostly serve as a palliative to our schools.

Charges of federal overreach have plagued the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) since the Obama administration's decision to tie adoption of common K - 12 standards to the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative (e.g., McCluskey 2010; Whitehurst 2010).

Conservatives have taken to calling the standards an example of federal overreach.

The push from the Obama administration did make it seem that Common Core was an example of federal overreach, says Cheryl Oldham, vice president of the Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach, they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education, not make it worse.

While it was widely reported that Betsy DeVos tried to convince her colleagues to maintain the protections the Obama administration put into place for transgender students, she went to the Conservative Political Action Conference a few days later and defended the move, saying the Obama regulations were examples of federal overreach.

Opponents view the new standards as an example of federal overreach.

Criticism has also come from the Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents state superintendents and sees the district waiver as an example of federal overreach — and a direct threat to their authority over schools.

Opponents argued that the plan was an example of federal overreach, and the Supreme Court temporarily blocked it in 2016 until both sides could fight it out in lower courts.