Sentences with phrase «states seeking waivers»

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Week States seeking waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act are hoping to replace what is widely considered an outdated, but consistent, school accountability regime with a...

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.

The waiver application contains the same commitments that all states seeking waivers were required to meet: implementing Common Core or other rigorous standards preparing students for college and careers, developing a teacher evaluation process that includes the results of local and state tests, and creating an accountability system that recognizes that success is more than students» test scores.

States seeking waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act are hoping to replace what is widely considered an outdated, but consistent, school accountability regime with a hodgepodge of complex school grading systems that are as diverse as the states themselves.

Also written into that amendment, according to the DCCC, is an exemption that would keep those protections in place for members of Congress, should their state seek the waiver.

Not exact matches

Because the deal that secured the votes of the conservative House sect known as the Freedom Caucus, allows states to seek waivers that let them opt out of basic protections for some citizens — rules, for example, that prevent insurers from charging virtually anything they want to «cover» those with preexisting conditions or that demand that insurers provide certain basic health and preventive care services.

A district court has granted a plaintiff's motion to remand a lawsuit back to a state court after the plaintiff, who was seeking a waiver of ineligibility from the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, withdrew his allegation that his rights under the United States Constitution were violated.

Curran will also seek a waiver from the state Civil Service Commission to allow Williams to work for the county while still collecting her $ 130,000 per year state pension.

ALBANY — In a direct and urgent plea to Washington, Governor Andrew Cuomo warned Tuesday that Brooklyn hospitals would be forced to close unless the federal government quickly approves a longstanding $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver sought by the state.

«In addition they should seek a waiver of the IBM lease renewal confirmation and the debt service coverage ratio,» the meeting minutes state in describing ideas offered by Kaloyeros.

Such an argument fundamentally states that the Legislature — which will meet only a handful of times in the months of January and February 2012 — can resolve an impasse that beset it such that it had to seek a second waiver from DOD simply because the legislature could not agree on resolving the issue for the entire session of 2011.

The Medicaid Redesign Team's effort was inextricably linked to the state's decision to seek the Medicaid waiver, which it first applied for in August of 2011.

Ganim is currently seeking a waiver from the State Elections Enforcement Commission because convicted felons can not receive public financing for political campaigns.

His legacy will be inexorably linked to the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, an $ 8 billion Medicaid waiver from the federal government that seeks to both reduce avoidable hospitalizations by 25 percent and provide health systems across the state with the resources they need to transition to value - based care.

Even if the Cuomo administration wanted to seek such a waiver, which seems unlikely, it would need a change in state laws that long predate Obamacare.

Notably, California and 11 other states had been seeking waivers from the EPA permitting them to pass laws requiring reduced car emissions of greenhouse gases from the 2009 model year onward.

The Obama administration has used its Race to the Top program and unprecedented, far - reaching conditions for states seeking «waivers» from the No Child Left Behind Act's most destructive requirements as excuses to micromanage what states are doing on teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, and much else.

Likewise, in New York State, a large portion of private schools have sought waivers from the state's requirement that all schools participate in the Regents examinations — for which the state will publicly report the scState, a large portion of private schools have sought waivers from the state's requirement that all schools participate in the Regents examinations — for which the state will publicly report the scstate's requirement that all schools participate in the Regents examinations — for which the state will publicly report the scstate will publicly report the scores.

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.

Waivers have typically been used for adaptation to variation among states, which bedevils American public administration, and to encourage policy innovations sought by incumbent administrations.

Aiming to spread its ideas as far and fast as possible, the education department eventually required all states seeking much - needed waivers from No Child Left Behind to adopt test - based evaluation systems.

The nine CORE districts seeking the waiver include three of the state's four largest districts — Los Angeles, Long Beach and Fresno Unified — as well as Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento City, Santa Ana, Sanger and Clovis, which combined serve more than a million students.

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.

Core adoption was technically voluntary: States could refuse to seek Race to the Top money or waivers, and a few did.

This left districts with a choice: delay the issuing of report cards until the scores are available «sometime this month» OR seek a waiver from state law mandating that TCAP scores count toward a student's final grade.

That led eight school districts within the state to join forces, seeking a federal waiver on their own, which was granted earlier this month.

From where they sit, the administration can not require states to fulfill promises they made as part of seeking the waivers.

To date, 32 states have won permission to depart from the law, five are waiting to hear and 13 have not sought waivers.

When panelists noted that MCIEA would eventually seek a federal waiver to be exempt from state testing, a majority of the room burst into applause.

Once fully built, the consortium seeks to request of the state department of education to apply for a federal waiver to enable the consortium to adopt the MCIEA model and be exempt from state testing except in «dipstick» grades.

The state could still seek waivers from changes that board members don't like — but only after a plan is submitted.

Twenty - eight other states along with D.C. and Puerto Rico have indicated their intent to seek waivers.

The State Education Department is seeking a federal waiver allowing students with severe disabilities not eligible for alternate assessments to be tested at lower grade levels.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for scState Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for scstate to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for school.

TEA also announced its intent to seek a federal waiver to exclude second - year English Learners from the state accountability system for 2018.

Mississippi and 44 other states adopted the more rigorous Common Core standards in 2010 after the Obama administration required tougher standards for those seeking state waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.

His administration made adoption of rigorous, uniform standards — including the common core — a condition for states seeking NCLB waivers.

Mississippi adopted the more rigorous Common Core standards in 2010 after the Obama administration required tougher standards for those seeking state waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.

But the Obama administration did provide incentives for states to adopt the standards through its competitive Race to the Top grant program and the waivers it granted to states seeking to avoid certain provisions of the No Child Left Behind law.

In a significant victory for educators and students in Hurricane Harvey - impacted school districts, Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Dec. 14 that he would seek a federal accountability waiver from the U.S. Department of Education to ensure the state has maximum flexibility as accountability decisions are made.

The goal of the waivers is to give states more flexibility as they seek to reach educational achievement goals set by the federal government when George W. Bush was president.

Earlier this month, the Utah State Board of Education voted to seek a waiver from an ESSA provision that would require the state to count students who opt out of statewide testing as zero scores for school accountability purpState Board of Education voted to seek a waiver from an ESSA provision that would require the state to count students who opt out of statewide testing as zero scores for school accountability purpstate to count students who opt out of statewide testing as zero scores for school accountability purposes.

States seeking grants or waivers agreed to adopt common standards to prepare students for «college and careers» and to use accountability systems based on «student growth.»

«Given the lack of broad - based stakeholder input into the waiver, the unrealistic timelines for implementing the teacher evaluation system under the waiver, the lack of research - based support for evaluating teachers based on student performance on state tests, and the dearth of vetted alternative measures of student learning available to use for teachers other than those teaching grades 5 - 9 reading and math, we recommend the Legislature delay taking action to implement the waiver's teacher evaluation system requirements, and urge the commissioner to continue to negotiate for more flexibility in the waiver regarding the teacher evaluation requirements, as well as to seek an extension from USDE regarding the timeline under which to implement the new system,» Eaton testified.

Tuck: He strongly supports linking teacher evaluations to test scores and has been critical of Torlakson's opposition to them, which caused eight school districts in the state to successfully seek a federal waiver on their own.

States seeking flexibility in this second round will be notified later this spring about whether they qualify for waivers.

Knowing that they had no control over independent - minded 11th - graders, the governor and State Department of Education sought a waiver from Washington, D.C., for permission to offer what they hoped would be a more palatable test: the SAT.

In an interesting development, ASCD has learned that the department is considering a waiver option for districts in those states that are not awarded nor seek a state waiver.

Federal policy also has reflected much of this change, with the U.S. Department of Education providing options for states to seek waivers from some of the dated NCLB requirements (in light of delays in Congressional reauthorization of that law), in an effort to promote innovation toward satisfaction of the rigorous kinds of standards established by the common core state standards.

However, ESSA also allows states to seek a cap waiver from the U.S. secretary of education.