Sentences with phrase «post-nclb federal role»

Over at the web site of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I'm co-author of a blog post titled «The Federal Role in Poverty Reduction.»

The larger federal role of the mid twentieth century was really an aberration brought about by the demands of global war.

Since the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first law that articulated a federal role in enforcing the rights of disabled people, the laws surrounding the education of children with special needs have evolved.

In this piece, Mark Stabile thinks through a renewed federal role in health.

Responding affirmatively in a letter to the editor published the next day, NAHB Chairman Kevin Kelly said that Rep. Carney's House bill to maintain a proper federal role in housing would encourage the private market to take a greater role in the mortgage marketplace and provide stability and liquidity for homeownership while limiting taxpayer exposure in the event of another downturn.

In 2013, the federal government continued, as in the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policy.

And that enlargement of the federal role was deepened and confirmed by the surge of the Great Society, beginning in 1965.

A compassionate - conservative approach to governing would result in a different and smaller federal role — using free - market ideas to strengthen families and communities, rather than constructing centralized bureaucracies.

And it is ironic indeed, that it is Germany and Merkel who are resisting a more federal role for the ECB while at the same time demanding some «limited» Treaty change (which will be on the table at the EU's December summit) so that stronger sanctions can be imposed on those breaking eurozone rules.

New York lawmakers of both parties are in agreement on funding the federal role in the anti-invasive battle.

President Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

President Barack Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major education legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

The U.S. Senate on Dec. 9 voted 85 to 12 for an overhaul of federal education law that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

The National Science Board — one of the pillars of the academic research establishment — has just released a report entitled» The Federal Role in Science and Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.»

All of these changes hinge on whether or not Congress is able to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, more commonly known as No Child Left Behind, which sets policies for the federal role in education.

«U.S: State, federal role in electric utilities» labor issues should be reexamined.»

The committee supports an ongoing significant federal role but also supports important roles for state and local governments.

In the end, there's going to have to be a federal role larger than there is now.

Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles.

It is widely accepted that protecting civil rights is a cornerstone of the federal role in American education.

Conservative scholars Myers and Wallach wrote, «We favor a dramatically reduced federal role in education.

It focuses the federal role on transparency instead of accountability.

It calls for an expanded federal role in education, which somehow or other still respects the primary role of states, districts, and schools.

The proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» would formally authorize the National Education Goals Panel, establish a federal role in developing national education standards and assessments, and create a grant program...

Unfortunately, this legislation does not do enough to define the federal role in terms of consolidating programs and increasing local flexibility to meet diverse circumstances.

Republicans seized control of the U.S. House of Representatives and significantly bolstered their majorities in the Senate in Tuesday's election, an outcome that will almost certainly mean an end to emergency education aid to states and will heighten pressure for a more limited federal role in K - 12 policy.

That action, on April 11, 1965, was a watershed in the evolution of the federal role in American schooling, a turning point both in sheer dollars — by some estimates, federal K - 12 spending tripled between 1964 and 1966 — and influence on districts nationwide.

This argues for a more active but less programmatic federal role in education.

Ironically, it is President George W. Bush, Reagan's conservative heir, who led the charge to the single greatest expansion of the federal role since the 1960s.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

The appropriate federal role is an important national debate that will not easily be settled and educators should advocate, individually and collectively, in support of their opinions on what that role should be.

Coupled with Duncan's boundless view of the federal role, HQT led to a raft of not - ready - for - primetime teacher evaluation systems.

Unlike, say, Jonah Edelman, who just last week likened critics of today's heavy - handed federal role in education to the states - rights segregationists of the 1950s, Duncan found a way to disagree with Republicans without being disagreeable.

With it comes the chance for greater sway over policy for states that have long chafed at what they viewed as an overly expansive federal role in K - 12 education.

The legislation, which is never taken up by the Senate, would significantly water down the federal role in K - 12 accountability.

The No Child Left Behind law — the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes.

Both the SSA and the ECAA are smart, constructive bills that hold out the promise of helping to get the federal role right when it comes to America's schools.

ESSA moved in the opposite direction — it seeks to pare back the federal role in K - 12 education.

The unprecedented public interest in the DeVos nomination reflects great interest in how Congress and the Trump administration might try to promote school choice via the federal role.

Bipartisan in its origins but controversial in its execution, NCLB, which is the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, expanded the federal role in education and targeted improving the achievement of disadvantaged students.

Survey coauthored by Associate Professor Martin West measures public thinking on vouchers, Common Core, federal role in ed policy.

«We must strive to help clarify what the federal role in education is and what it is not,» said California State Superintendent Wilson Riles last week in his inaugural address as president of the Council of Chief State School Officers (ccsso).

Meanwhile, support for the federal role in education policy has waned.

They need to distinguish their positions from Obama's «centrist education reforms» and «to win over a Republican base that resists a growing federal role in education.»

That sure sounds bad; after all, even the local - control crowd will generally acknowledge that there's a legitimate federal role in ensuring students» civil rights.

With OERI up for reauthorization by Congress, this seems like the perfect time to revisit the federal role in research and development.

Findings from the study of four districts that have undertaken systemic change were presented to the House Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the federal role in systemic reform.

The federal government can't compel local change, but that doesn't mean there isn't a federal role.

Creating comparable, accessible, easy - to - understand data would be an appropriate federal role and be a big help to local policymakers and advocates.

The proper federal role, instead, is to ask states to make their school results transparent.