Sentences with phrase «esea waiver system»

08/27/2013: LULAC joins 9 other civil rights organizations in releasing a white paper analyzing the Department of Education's ESEA Waiver system.

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Arne Duncan has also espoused the wisdom of looking at progress over time, yet his ESEA waiver rules require state accountability systems to take proficiency rates into account — those are expected to be the drivers in identifying «focus» and «priority» schools.

Consider, for instance, the Obama Administration's decision to place three states on «high risk status» because they have fallen behind on their promises to implement statewide teacher - evaluation systems (a condition — of dubious legality — of their ESEA waivers).

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factor.

Since states are creating their own new accountability systems via ESEA waivers, they must tackle this issue if AECs are to be treated differently.

I am confident that some of the courts, at least, will ask Duncan to point to the «plain language» of ESEA that gives him the authority to mandate statewide teacher - evaluation systems, particularly for states that want waivers on school accountability.

He served as New Jersey's Deputy Commissioner of Education where he helped lead initiatives including the state's successful ESEA waiver and Race to the Top 3 applications, the launching of a new teacher evaluation system, and an overhaul of the department's charter school authorizing.

Where is the «plain language» of ESEA that gives the Department of Education the authority to mandate statewide teacher - evaluation systems, particularly for states that want waivers on school accountability.

The push for new teacher evaluation systems was central to Obama administration efforts, along with the Race to the Top and then ESEA waivers.

And, a majority of the states that have applied for ESEA waivers to opt - out of the current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) accountability system include school climate and / or prosocial education as part of their desired alternative accountability system.

The chiefs, like ASCD, believe comprehensive ESEA reauthorization is preferable to a patchwork system of waivers approved by the Obama administration.

He thinks that the lack of changes, ESEA reauthorization, implementing common core standards, and how schools use waivers all present difficulties, but in the end, if the system does not change or educators don't give their all, then the students will fail — which McClure says is the «biggest travesty of all.»

In TCTA's view, not only do these provisions exceed the parameters of current Texas law, particularly with regard to locally - developed teacher appraisal systems, but they are a holdover from Texas's ESEA waiver requirements, which are now null and void.

Alabama has received a waiver from portions of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which requires the state to include growth in student achievement as a significant factor in the evaluation framework, as well as a multitiered rating system.

In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).

Department of Educations Extends Transition Flexibility Waivers for StatesThe Department of Education will consider, on a state - by - state basis, requests for flexibility in two areas: the timeline for using results of teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility for personnel decisions, and field testing new assessments aligned to college - and career - ready standards.

House education chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the top - ranking Republican on the education committee, have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO)-- Congress's investigative arm — conduct a study on the department's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver policies, specifically examining the cost of applying for such waivers and the implications of the waivers on teacher and principal evaluation systems.