Sentences with phrase «california applied for a waiver»

Los Angeles is one of nine districts in California applying for a waiver as a group; the waiver was amended last week to make it stronger and clearer, officials said.

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Columbia Teachers College professor Hank Levin recounts that when the California legislature allowed districts to apply for waivers if they could demonstrate that laws or rules were hampering school improvement, «Fewer than 100 [waivers] were made in the first year» in a state with more than 1,000 districts.

A group of California districts have jointly applied for an NCLB accountability waiver.

Three cheers for California's governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind) that doesn't kowtow to Washington.

Three cheers for California's governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from NCLB that doesn't kowtow to Washington.

Torlakson also said California is applying for a «double testing» waiver from the federal government, which would allow students to avoid taking both the field test and a separate end - of - year state test.

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

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.

Two other possible factors cited in recent reports include California Department of Education's interest in applying for its own waiver, and whether local unions like UTLA would support or oppose a waiver.

Although Torlakson noted the waiver program in his letter to Duncan - saying the «conditional nature» poses a problem for California - it is unclear if the first - year head of California schools is applying for such a waiver.

Earlier this week, a number of civil rights and school reform groups including Democrats for Education Reform (or DFER) sent a letter to United States Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan opposing the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver that LAUSD and eight other California school districts had applied for.

California similarly attempted to apply for a waiver without addressing all of the required reforms, only to have its request denied.

This means just over a dozen states haven't yet applied for a waiver: Alabama, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Second, the July 2011 agreement commits EPA to grant a waiver for California's MY 2017 - 2025 greenhouse gas emission standards before California requests it or finalizes the standards to which it would apply.62