Sentences with phrase «represents federal overreach»

Gov. Bobby Jindal tried to block the test and the Common Core standards, saying they represented federal overreach, and some parents have chosen to boycott the tests based on political convictions or a concern the tests are useless or even harmful.

Common Core opposition has been loud, with some parents and Gov. Bobby Jindal charging that the standards represent federal overreach or are too complicated for students.

Christie has read the conservative political waters of the nation and has suddenly discovered that the Common Core State Standards, which he has long championed, now represent federal overreach.

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Fitzgerald Public School administrators say the new guidelines represent a maddening overreach by distant federal officials with little or no understanding of how kids actually behave.

Today, NCLB is despised by some parents who blame it for schools «teaching to the test,» protested by some on the left for promoting education reform and reviled by Republicans in Congress who say the law represents aggressive federal overreach.

Those on the right increasingly believe that the Common Core represents severe federal overreach into state sovereignty over education; those on the left, including the AFT, are pushing back not against the standards themselves, but against their implementation and use in newly adopted high - stakes teacher evaluation systems.

From a political point of view, the standards, to some, represent the age - old struggle between federal overreach and states» rights.

The standards have been in the works since 2009, but in the last few months a backlash has grown, mostly fueled by critics who worry the standards represent federal government overreach.