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Confine the federal role to gathering statistics

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 11, p. 325. Written by Lindsey M. Burke.

Confine the federal role to gathering statistics

The document says “shouldWho acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 325 in the PDF
What the document says

“The federal government should confine its involvement in education policy to that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 325

The chapter says the complexity of federal education programs has contributed to bureaucratic bloat in state and local districts, and that streamlining funding into straightforward per-pupil allocations or unrestricted grants would ease the compliance burden.

What the document actually says

“The federal government should confine its involvement in education policy to that of a statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 325
That sentence, in plain words

Washington should only collect numbers about schools. Then it should share them with the states.

What this is about

The book says Washington should stop setting school rules. It should only gather facts and figures. Then it would pass them to the states.

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