Sentences with phrase «nclb waiver requests»

Last week, the U.S. Department of Education received the latest NCLB waiver requests from Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and West Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico and the Bureau of Indian Education.

Read the full letter below: Arne Duncan's Letter Rejecting California's NCLB Waiver Request

Not exact matches

President Barack Obama recently enacted changes that allow states to request waivers for some of the legal requirements of NCLB, including the 2014 deadline, stating that the strictures of the law were hampering academic progress in some schools.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appeared before the Senate on Wednesday to defend his budget request and was given a hard time by Senator Lamar Alexander over his decision to revoke Washington state's NCLB waiver.

In this case, there is no allegation that the DOE has refused a district request for a waiver of NCLB requirements.

And, in Kirst's view, the waiver request is consistent with what's actually in the NCLB law.

As with NCLB, a state may request a waiver from the Secretary of Education for specific statutory or regulatory provisions under the ESSA.

If hope has long since faded that the largely non-compliant waiver request would be accepted, state officials are instead moving quietly to do what they can to soften the impacts NCLB sanctions will have on a growing number of communities.

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.

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.

To date, 34 states and the District of Columbia have received NCLB waivers and several other requests are pending.

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.

Shortly after the Obama administration announced that it's providing NCLB waivers to all 11 states that have applied for such flexibility to date, 26 additional states and the District of Columbia submitted their own waiver applications in the second round of requests.

The statutes of NCLB only allow Duncan to grant waivers at state or local education agencies» requests.

When Duncan saw congress stalling, he decided to come up with his own workaround, what he called «Plan B»: allow states to request waivers excusing them from certain NCLB requirements in exchange for implementing some of Duncan's favored reforms.

Meanwhile, with three statesopenly defying NCLB's strictures and at least ten states preparing waiver requests, it looks like «states may have a mishmash of different accountability systems,» says Jennings, who expects «the vast majority of states» to apply for waivers by the time Duncan releases his regulations.

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.

California was one of a handful of states that didn't receive an NCLB waiver but CORE — which includes the schools of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Sanger and Sacramento — was the only district - level entity to request and receive the exemption.

Texas» request will not be for the same type of waiver with strings attached that other states have received, but rather a waiver under the general waiver authority given the U.S. secretary of education in the NCLB Act.

Probably of most interest to teachers is that, according to the state's notice of intent, Texas» waiver request will include a request for exemption from the NCLB Act's highly qualified teacher requirements.

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