Sentences with phrase «standard waiver requested»

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The letter opposes SNA's controversial request to Congress for waivers from and a rollback of healthy school nutrition standards.

Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver from complying with healthier school food standards.

In March, the NYS Education Department requested a waiver from the federal law, allowing for developmentally appropriate testing standards for child with serious disabilities, and a second year of prep time for English Language Learners for children just starting to learn English.

The county has requested a waiver from the U.S. Agriculture Department's standards for organic dairy and beef cows, which require them to graze cows on pastures for at least 30 percent of their food intake for at least 120 days.

EPA Administrator Johnson denied California's request to a waiver to federal standards in order to implement its carbon dioxide pollution standard for vehicles.

D.C.'s waiver request was granted in spite of concerns that its transition plan to embrace Common Core math and reading standards was not «realistic and of high quality», and lacked a «high - quality plan» for ensuring that English Language Learners and special ed students could get strong, comprehensive, college [preparatory curricula.

The department made clear that states that are requesting targeted and substantive changes to their evaluation systems (primarily, adjustments to their timelines) will have their waiver extension requests evaluated based on their performance on the two other main waiver principles — standards and assessments, and turnarounds.

The fact sheet does not detail what exactly such standards would entail, although U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has previously said states that haven't adapted the Common Core State Standards will not be barred from requesting waivers.

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.

Ever since the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Stephen G. Johnson, denied California's request for a waiver allowing it to put new controls on greenhouse - gas emissions from cars and light trucks, the agency has repeatedly claimed that its new federal standard is more aggressive than California's plan.

Despite the study's results, the EPA has stood fast in its decision to reject California's emissions waiver request; presumably they expect the lax federal standards to help resolve L.A.'s smog woes.

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

California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January after it rejected the state's 2005 request for a rule waiver to enact its own tailpipe emissions standards.