Sentences with phrase «nclb waiver requirements»

But that promise, which echoes a campaign pledge Obama made in a 2008 speech, might not square with the new NCLB waiver requirements he outlined.

South Dakota Education Secretary Melody Schopp said the state is still unclear whether the state needs «one system mandated statewide» to satisfy the NCLB waiver requirements.

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.

The end of NCLB's requirements and of the Obama administration's «ESEA waivers» has occasioned both celebration and angst, while creating many opportunities for states to act.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

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

The administration also embedded these requirements and definitions in subsequent grant competitions, its proposal to reauthorize NCLB, and, starting in 2011, conditions for states seeking NCLB waivers.

Federal policy, through Race to the Top financial incentives and selective offers of waivers to NCLB requirements, is pushing this centralizing strategy forward.

With presidential backing, Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, has announced that states can get a waiver from NCLB requirements should they agree to the Obama Administration's Race to the Top guidelines.

It was not difficult for opponents to cast Common Core as a federal initiative, given 1) the Obama administration's use of RttT incentives (and later, waivers to NCLB requirements) to encourage states to adopt the standards and 2) the administration's funding of the consortia.

The availability of choice under NCLB largely vanished when the Department of Education began granting waivers of many of the law's requirements to states.

Some also argue that the recent spate of heavy - handed edu - policies (some cite NCLB, teacher - evaluation reform, ESEA - waiver requirements) should make us leery of wading into the world of private - school regulation.

Indeed, RttT competition proved so politically successful the Department of Education built on it by allowing all states to seek a waiver of most NCLB requirements by submitting RttT - like reform plans, including test - based teacher evaluations and the setting of standards similar to the Common Core State Standards.

Another Duncan policy granted states waivers of NCLB's requirements only if they agreed to comply with provisions similar to RTTT's.

In particular, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top competitive grants and its waivers of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements, is putting pressure on states to incorporate student test scores as a significant component of any new teacher evaluation system.

Within the proposed NCLB waiver plan, a state must comply with three requirements to become eligible for the waiver.

Policymakers and practitioners alike express concern that NCLB's new waiver requirements will overshadow the individual needs of historically disadvantaged students and draw attention away from the achievement gap (Dervarics, 2011; Fensterwald, 2011; Stokes, 2012).

If the states fail to follow through, they could lose their waivers and return to requirements many considered oppressive under NCLB, including having all students reading and doing math on grade level.

The requirements of the NCLB waiver plan raise some serious implications for these students that educators must approach with caution.

Fed Ed Head Arne Duncan, who hated NCLB's dumb requirements when he ran CPS, has come up with even dumber requirements, misleadingly calling it a «Flexibility Waiver».

In September 2011, President Obama announced ESEA Flexibility, a new public education waiver plan to grant state education agencies increased flexibility in meeting NCLB requirements.

While AYP reporting requirements remain, waivers remove NCLB punishments from all but the lowest - scoring («priority») schools in a state.

It also eliminates the requirement under the Obama administration's NCLB waiver program that states evaluate teacher performance based on, in part, student test score growth.

In states that do not have waivers, few if any schools report 100 percent of students scoring «proficient,» NCLB's current requirement for making AYP.

In granting waivers from NCLB's requirements, the Obama administration further pushed a federal agenda that included Common Core standards and more reliable teacher evaluations.

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.

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).

Texas adopts CA's strategy on NCLB waiver, prompting new risk SI&A Cabinet Report: California is no longer the only state trying to get relief from the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act without committing to the conditions set down by the Obama administration — Texas is trying to do the same thing.

The best indicator of the imperfections of NCLB is the large number of states that the federal government has awarded waivers from NCLB requirements in exchange for planning and pursuing new policies, such as enhanced teacher evaluation systems.

Currently, these quantitative accountability measures are in place in every state, although the Obama administration has granted waivers of some NCLB requirements to a number of states.

The resulting substantial waivers to the stringent requirements of NCLB, the proliferation of high - stakes testing across the states, and the concerns about the loss of control over public schools by local communities proved too much.

That issue has become important to states awarded waivers from the U.S. Department of Education from NCLB requirements.

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).

In place of a legislative plan, the Obama administration has offered to waive some of the requirements of NCLB — and dozens of states have already lined up for the waivers.

CA was roundly criticized for not agreeing to federal requirements, either in RTTT or the NCLB waivers.

Complaints like this compelled the secretary to announce his intention two weeks ago to offer states waivers from key NCLB requirements in exchange for a commitment to implement a separate set of administration - backed reforms.

Q: The waiver frees Local Education Agencies from the so - called Highly Qualified Teacher requirements of NCLB, and from having to develop «Improvement Plans» for not meeting requirements for 2 consecutive years.

The new federal education law grants the Department of Education the ability to waive certain NCLB or Waiver requirements in the interest of a smooth transition to the new law (ESSA) with a January 2017 cross-over target.

-- Last August, the department asked states to address this issue as part of NCLB waiver renewal requirements.

Duncan has said that he plans, in the coming weeks, to roll out a waiver program that states can apply for and be provided relief from the NCLB sanctions - but that program is conditioned on reform requirements states would also have to adopt.

Perhaps sensing a crisis it did not want to waste, the administration offered waivers that allowed states to opt out of many NCLB requirements, including the proficiency deadline, but only if the state complied with administration conditions.

As a condition of Texas» waiver from NCLB requirements — necessary to ensure exemption from unattainable accountability standards and the flexibility of federal funds — USDE had required the state to ensure that student growth at the individual teacher level would be a significant component of teacher appraisals.

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education granted states the opportunity to apply for waivers from the core requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

And now, most recently, to receive a waiver from the cornerstone requirement of NCLB — that all students be proficient in math and language arts by 2014 — states must create new teacher evaluation guidelines.

Developing the new system was a condition of an agreement the Texas commissioner of education made with the U.S. Department of Education in order to secure a waiver from certain requirements of the NCLB.

Evers and Walker hope to receive waivers for NCLB requirements once their accountability system is in place.

In June, 2012, the U.S. Department of Education 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).

One notable twist: although the department had previously indicated that states would have to use data to demonstrate improved student achievement and graduation rates to receive future NCLB waiver renewals, the new guidance contains no such data requirement.

The waivers themselves cover more provisions than expected, but the new conditions for receiving them have frustrated educators who prefer a clean break with NCLB's more onerous mandates rather than swapping them for new requirements.

In fact, NCLB has gotten so restrictive that some states have already sidestepped some of its requirements, with or without waivers.