Sentences with phrase «proper role of federal government»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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.

«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.