Sentences with phrase «core waiver application»

Much like LAUSD's new teacher evaluation system, the CORE waiver application wants school ratings to include dropout rates, graduation rates, truancy rates, school disciple and other criteria.

Not exact matches

The waiver application contains the same commitments that all states seeking waivers were required to meet: implementing Common Core or other rigorous standards preparing students for college and careers, developing a teacher evaluation process that includes the results of local and state tests, and creating an accountability system that recognizes that success is more than students» test scores.

Based upon the factual evidence documented at www.UtahnsAgainstCommonCore.com I ask the Governor, State Board of Education, and State Superintendent to immediately take the steps necessary to rescind Common Core adoption, SBAC membership, the Race to the Top application, the No Child Left Behind waiver, and all other requirements upon the state that are related to these, and return to the Utah Core standards in use prior to Common Core adoption.

Fullan, a Canadian author on education reform, is the architect of the collaboration - focused model of school reform, on which CORE has based its NCLB waiver application.

The group's waiver application has sparked controversy among other state superintendents, who see a district waiver as giving too much power to locally - run districts, as well as teachers unions that argue they were not consulted in constructing CORE's academic accountability system, known as the School Quality Improvement Index.

The eight districts that have formed the nonprofit organization California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, are preparing their own application for a waiver from the penalties of the No Child Left Behind law, undeterred by the federal government's rejection last month of a waiver for California.

Two unknowns lurk: Duncan hasn't yet agreed to consider district waivers in states that either didn't apply for them or had their applications turned down, and CORE hasn't yet formally asked Brown for his blessing, which would considerably help their case.

The Obama administration has tacitly endorsed the Common Core standards by including a requirement for «college - and - career - ready standards» in state applications for Race To The Top funding and No Child Left Behind waivers.

After California's waiver request was rejected back in January, CORE submitted its own application to the Department of Education, marking the first time districts filed a unified proposal.

California districts applied for their waiver under their umbrella organization, the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), which led the application process.

However, while rejecting California's application for a statewide waiver, eight California school districts, which formed the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, did agree to the conditions and received the nation's only waiver given specifically to school districts.

While several states made their NCLB waiver application proposals and review sheets available online, the review group's letter to CORE has not been made publicly available by the Education Department in Washington or the California districts that are applying for the waiver.

Q: CORE's initial waiver application states that your plan «is rooted in shared learning and responsibility for student achievement.»

The CORE districts, which include Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Ana, Sanger, Sacramento City, and Fresno, filed a separate application and were the only non-state-level educational agencies to win a federal Education Department waiver.

«Fullan reviewed CORE's waiver application, which cites his writing and says that CORE's «alternative accountability model and day - to - day work» is motivated by the «changed culture and positive and lasting improvements» in Ontario.

After California's waiver request was rejected in January, CORE submitted its own application to the Department of Education, marking the first time districts filed a unified proposal.

As Education Week reported last Friday, the nine California school districts collectively known as CORE (California Office to Reform Education) are busy revising their application for a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver.