Sentences with phrase «proper federal role»

Now we have a chance to fix the law by refocusing on the proper federal role: equal opportunity.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Many have felt the federal government is too large and does not have a proper role doing many of the things it currently does.

«I do believe there is a proper role for the federal government in research,» Mulvaney replied, particularly in areas where the private sector is not likely to support research.

«We talked in broader terms of education funding and the need for attracting teachers and what to do about inner city schools, as well as the proper role of federal government.

I think there is a real debate about the proper role of federal government in education.»

Seems to me that an administration that cares about choice, about achievement, about state and local control of education, and about restoring the proper role of the federal government with regard to civil rights now has ample reason — maybe even urgent reason — to make known its views and take corrective action.

The dispute over his actions rather reflects a deeper disagreement over the proper role of the federal government in education, an ambivalence well captured by the Reading First law itself, which embodies a contradiction.

The challenge, then, is to find the right spot on the continuum between today's coercive, micromanaging federal role and «leave the money on the stump» — a spot that is realistic about Washington's proper role (and capacity) in the education cosmos, but that still nudges the system in a reform direction.

«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal point of major education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa.

It may seem peculiar that part of your role as an administrator of federal programs is to ensure that private schools receive their proper share of public funds, but such is the case.

So today I am calling on all of you to join with us to build a transformative education law that offers every child the education they want and need — a law that recognizes and reinforces the proper role of the federal government to support and drive reform at the state and local level.

While the department will need to share the applicable laws on its state website, promoting ESSA or legislation that gives the Secretary at the Federal level authority over Alabama's education system is not the proper role of ALSDE.

Those on the right say that the initiative is nothing more than a federal move towards a national curriculum that oversteps the proper role of the federal government in public education, which has traditionally been directed at the state and local levels.

This data driven conclusion is enormously comforting for those who worry about the proper role of the federal judiciary in a democratic society.

While this is good news for folks like me who view the proper judicial role as weak, one wonders why federal district judges, unlike say Supreme Court Justices, tend not to be ideological in their decision - making.