Sentences with phrase «behind waiver request»

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If his waiver request is denied, fans may not see Patterson behind center until 2019.

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Education.

Last week, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, received the news that Arizona's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver extension request had been provisionally granted with a «high - risk» label (i.e., in danger of being revoked).

States still developing their No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver applications can also request a one - year extension of their student achievement targets, according to a letter sent by the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday to chief state school officers.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for school.

As states prepare to submit more applications for waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements, the U.S. Department of Education has released recommendations for strengthening their requests.

Four state education officials spoke about their states» waiver requests, allowing them more flexibility with meeting No Child Left Behind goals.

Teachers unions had objected to the No Child Left Behind Law, which was signed by George W. Bush in 2001, and had supported California's request for a waiver.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan approved Maine and Pennsylvania's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver requests just in time for the start of the new school year.

As U.S. Secretary of Education prepared to come to Connecticut to announce that he had granted Governor Dannel Malloy's request for a federal waiver on the No Child Left Behind Law, the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper's headline read; Vermont Drops Request for Norequest for a federal waiver on the No Child Left Behind Law, the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper's headline read; Vermont Drops Request for NoRequest for No Child.

Texas Commissioner of Education Michael Williams met with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2013, about Texas» request for a waiver from certain provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act.

With no tangible sign from Congress that relief in the form of an updated law will come any time soon, states from Missouri to Wisconsin are lining up to request waivers from the U.S. Department of Education as a means of getting around the statutes of No Child Left Behind.

«In our request for waivers from No Child Left Behind's broken system for evaluating schools, we advocate for accountability for results for all publicly funded schools,» he said.

Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming recently submitted No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver requests to the U.S. Department of Education, meaning 47 states have now requested flexibility from the law's most onerous requirements.

The Obama administration has granted Indiana's request for a waiver from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind, officials announced Thursday.

Alexandria, VA - With reauthorization of No Child Left Behind taking much longer than expected, the American Association of School Administrators and the National School Boards Association have proposed a request for a blanket waiver from the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly referred to as No Child Left Behind, which would effectively eliminate the need to comply with all No Child Left Behind provisions.