Sentences with phrase «education act waivers»

The Obama administration is targeting several improvements related to English language learners through its process for granting Elementary and Secondary Education Act waivers.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act waivers offer states an opportunity to press ahead with efforts that improve instruction for English language learners.

Previously, Chad was a policy adviser in the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education, where he worked on Elementary and Secondary Education Act waivers, teacher preparation, and the Teacher Incentive Fund.

After all, Trump's stance would be entirely consistent with the Obama administration's «pen and phone» approach to teacher evaluation, Elementary and Secondary Education Act waivers, school discipline, campus sexual assault, supplement - not - supplant, and much else.

Furthermore, through Louisiana's Elementary and Secondary Education Act Waiver Application, the state will include student scores on ACT tests in a simplified school performance score, beginning in the 2012 - 2013 school year.

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Last week, 11 states applied for waivers from many of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's most onerous provisions.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school tureducation - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

This got much easier recently when House Education Committee Chair John Kline and K - 12 Subcomittee Chair Todd Rokita introduced the Student Success Act, which bars the feds from offering grants or policy waivers contingent on a state» s use of certain curricula or adoption of certain assessment policies.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Obama administration characterizes its plan to offer states waivers from some provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) as a necessary response to glacial congressional progress on reauthorizing and revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (whose current version is NCLB).

Californians will vote in November 2016 on the Multilingual Education Act, which would repeal most of 227, allowing children to be placed in non-English instruction without parental waivers.

What the Obama administration just did with education would be a mild case, in which waivers are combined with new requirements lacking a basis in law, but the more serious case is the Affordable Care Act, under which, without any warrant that I have been able to find in the law itself, the administration granted more than 1,400 waivers to labor unions and small businesses that were offering less insurance coverage than the law requires.

President Obama sparked much debate in Washington with his plan to grant states waivers from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), conditional on their willingness to embrace certain reform proposals sketched out in the administration's March 2010 proposal, «A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.»

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.

In an Education Sector report released yesterday — The New State Achievement Gap: How Waivers Could Make It Worse - Or Better — Constance Clark and I report the effects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on education inequality, the ill that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was long ago writtenEducation Sector report released yesterday — The New State Achievement Gap: How Waivers Could Make It Worse - Or Better — Constance Clark and I report the effects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on education inequality, the ill that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was long ago writteneducation inequality, the ill that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was long ago writtenEducation Act (ESEA) was long ago written to cure.

Yet that's exactly what Arne Duncan and his Department of Education continue to do when it comes to their interpretation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's waiver authority.

Showing the taste for power that has led Sen. Lamar Alexander to accuse him of thinking he runs a national school board, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week yanked Washington state's «waiver» from the No Child Left Behind Act.

In discussing ESSA, chair of the Senate Education Committee Lamar Alexander claimed, «The department was in effect acting as a national school board for the 42 states with waivers — 100,000 schools.

On January 2, 2014, Commissioner King announced that the United States Department of Education (USDE) had approved New York State's request for a waiver from Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provisions that currently require students who take Regents exams in mathematics when they are enrolled in seventh or eighth grade to also take the State mathematics assessment for that grade.

It is being widely reported this morning that in September U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will publish criteria states will have to meet to be granted waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act.

«If Congress does not act now, our inaction will transform the U.S. Secretary of Education into a waiver - granting czar over an unworkable law.»

Schools struggling to meet requirements of the Quality Education Investment Act can expect to receive favorable treatment through the waiver process overseen by the California State Board of Education.

Another active area for waivers in 2011 that was consistent with prior years relates to requirements tied to the Quality Education Investment Act.

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 schEducation 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 scheducation 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.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy has expressed great enthusiasm for the 10 - district effort to win a so - called «waiver» from some aspects of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which sets accountability rules and governs the distribution of billions in education funding from Washington.

The Obama administration also required that teacher evaluations be tied to student performance for states seeking waivers from the mandates of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and California as a result did not receive a waiver, although six districts, including LA Unified, did receive them.

Education Week States seeking waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act are hoping to replace what is widely considered an outdated, but consistent, school accountability regime with a...

This document contains a brief, tailored overview of The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- the 114th Congress's effort to update the antiquated NCLB — for school board members with key information (e.g., effective date of existing waiver terminations) about how Congress has overhauled the law in favor of restoring local governance and community leadership in public education.

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Superintendent Huppenthal was given 60 days to make two revisions: (1) adjust the graduation rate to account for 20 % of a school's A-F letter grade instead of the proposed 15 % and, as most pertinent here, (2) finalize the guidelines for the teacher and principal evaluations to comply with Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Flexibility (i.e., the NCLB waiver guidelines).

• Deferred a decision on whether to seek an extension to Utah's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver while watching events both in Washington, where the act is now up for renewal, and in Salt Lake City, where the Legislature is preparing its annual budget for public eEducation Act (ESEA) waiver while watching events both in Washington, where the act is now up for renewal, and in Salt Lake City, where the Legislature is preparing its annual budget for public educatiAct (ESEA) waiver while watching events both in Washington, where the act is now up for renewal, and in Salt Lake City, where the Legislature is preparing its annual budget for public educatiact is now up for renewal, and in Salt Lake City, where the Legislature is preparing its annual budget for public educationeducation.

He and Commissioner of Education Christopher Cerf — who was appointed by Mr. Christie in 2011 and confirmed by the state Senate last year — also received approval for a waiver of provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Education Week Eight California districts — including the mammoth Los Angeles Unified — have won a special one - year waiver from the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act from U.S. Secretary of...

The Obama administration has already opened the door to major flexibility by issuing waivers from the NCLB law, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

When the U.S. Department of Education granted states waivers to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), those waivers came with conditions.

The U.S. Department of Education today approved a one - year extension of Utah's waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), meaning that the state will not have to follow some requirements related to the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

No one should be surprised that the U.S. Department of Education's new guidance for 41 states to renew the waivers granted to them under the Obama Administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its accountability provisions effectively allows states to get away with continuing their shortchanging of poor and minority children.

No Child Left Behind / Elementary Secondary Education Act STAKEHOLDERS MEETING ON FLEXIBILITY WAIVER 7:00 to 8:30 P. M.

It also suggests that states receiving the NCLB waivers be regarded as reform laboratories whose eventual successes and failures can inform Congress's Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks in Gary in 2011 about No Child Left Behind waivers and reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

2017 - 18 Pupil Accounting Transition Related to Seat Time Waivers Section 101 (9), of the State School Aid Act (MCL 388.1701 [9]-RRB-, permits the State Superintendent to waive the minimum number of hours and days of pupil instruction for Alternative Education programs or other innovative programs approved by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE).

President Obama and Duncan announced in the fall of 2011 that they would consider granting waivers because of the failure of Congress to fix or replace NCLB, officially known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

In June 2012, the U.S. Department of Education (USED) granted Virginia waivers from certain requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB).

Both Kline and the committee's ranking Democrat George Miller (CA) highlighted the pressing need to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and expressed their displeasure with the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver process; Kline described it as «executive fiat» and Miller lamented what he views as a weakened state focus on providing equitable learning opportunities to all students.

Per the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) flexibility waiver provisions, ten percent of Virginia's Title I schools (72) are identified as focus schools based on reading and mathematics achievement of students in the three proficiency gap groups.

But Duncan has countered that he was forced to implement the waivers because of Congress's inability to fix the outdated and flawed Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

And McGuinn said Obama is sure to exploit that, with Christie far from the only Republican governor who has embraced Obama's education policies through the Race to the Top grants and most recently state waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Earlier today, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Governor Dannel Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor announced that Connecticut would be one of the states receiving a waiver from the «No Child Left Behind» Act.

The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that five states — Delaware, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and South Carolina — had their waivers from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act approved, along with Puerto Rico.

If Congress manages to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) before the new year, the administration's NCLB waiver plan would be rendered unnecessary and not take effect.

«If Congress does not act now,» he said, «our inaction will transform the U.S. secretary of education into a waiver - granting czar over an unworkable law that has identified what he says may be as many as 80,000 «failing» public schools.»