Sentences with phrase «under a waiver from»

Increased state flexibility and experimentation with federal guidance under waivers from federal law, shifting to even greater state control of accountability systems design under the Every Student Succeeds Act

As California supports districts statewide to embark on this improvement journey, there are important lessons to be learned from the CORE districts, six of which developed an innovative accountability system under a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Designed by the State Office of Education, it's been approved by federal officials under a waiver from No Child Left Behind requirements.

Under a waiver from NCLB approved earlier this month, the goal is for 50 percent of students to score proficient on the new state reading test and 65 percent to score proficient on the new state math test by 2017.

Chronic absence is also included in the state's achievement compacts, a part of its accountability system under a waiver from No Child Left Behind.

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Reuters has reported the draft would assert that a 1975 law bars California from imposing its own state emissions rules, as it has long done nonetheless under a series of Clean Air Act waivers.

Valeant expects to file its Form 10 - K and become current on its financial filings by April 29, 2016 (within the curing period) but to be prudent, the company also announced that it intends to seek a waiver from the lenders under its credit facility.

The Company will seek a waiver from NYSE American's shareholder approval requirements in circumstances where the securities issuance does not trigger such a requirement under British Columbia law or under the rules of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

Black, 66, has been under fire from several city officials who say that the Hearst chairman should not receive the state waiver she needs to get the job because of her lack of education experience.

Under state law, individuals convicted of a felony must get a waiver from the courts, known as a «certificate of good conduct,» to run for public office.

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

Under state law, the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent or obtain a waiver from the state.

Under state law, any former state or local government worker under age 65 who receives a state pension must obtain a «211 waiver» from the state Civil Service Department to return to public payroll unless they earn less than $ 30,000 a Under state law, any former state or local government worker under age 65 who receives a state pension must obtain a «211 waiver» from the state Civil Service Department to return to public payroll unless they earn less than $ 30,000 a under age 65 who receives a state pension must obtain a «211 waiver» from the state Civil Service Department to return to public payroll unless they earn less than $ 30,000 a year.

Under the regulations, counties will not need a waiver to be exempt from fingerprinting.

It also recommends that NSF not waiver from its commitment to build and operate the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, as well as the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, which is currently under construction.

CORE and its member districts have partnered with TransformEd to assist member districts to fulfill public reporting obligations under its federally - approved waiver from No Child Left Behind school accountability provisions (NCLB waiver), approved by the US Department of Education (USDOE) on August 6th, 2013.

The waivers, which are now in place in 42 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, allow states to get out from under many of the mandates of the NCLB law in exchange for embracing certain education redesign priorities.

Yes, under NCLB's waiver authority, the Secretary has a lot of room to maneuver in terms of letting states and districts escape from onerous parts of the law.

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

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

Also, because of the anticipated approval of a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools and districts won't be judged as failing to meet adequate yearly progress this year, Johnson said.

The Department of Public Instruction developed the system — which identifies schools as «focus» and «priority» — to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which for the past decade has resulted in sanctions for certain schools.

Not only is it state law, but it's required if Indiana wants to keep a federal waiver releasing it from strict accountability rules under No Child Left Behind.

Additionally, since common core standards are copyrighted, no changes can be made in them without express permission of the copyright holders [as evidenced most recently in the attached letter from the National Governors Association dated September 29, 2014, to the Missouri School Boards Association] AND from the U. S. Department of Education under the Alabama's No Child Left Behind waiver agreement.

Two years later, the administration gave states the opportunity to apply for waivers that exempted them from a federal requirement under No Child Left Behind that 100 percent of American students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.

Another five states will receive waivers from federal education mandates under No Child Left Behind, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, bringing the total number of waiver states to 24.

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 school.

The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).

Another eight states received waivers from federal education requirements under the No Child Left Behind law.

However, having multiple tests could jeopardize the state's waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law and federal funding.

Pilot Schools: Small schools with under 500 kids, they can also obtain waivers from labor agreements.

Some worry both the waivers from and the re-write of No Child Left Behind will dial back the government's commitment to help these under - served students.

Last week, we told you about Steve Barr's interest in starting pilot schools, which are small schools with under 500 kids that operate within the district but can also obtain waivers from labor agreements — the closest thing to an autonomous charter.

Madison teachers union president Mike Lipp publicly embraced the new teacher evaluations mandated under the state's waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, saying feedback is useful and Madison school administrators haven't always been good about evaluating staff in the past.

(District of Columbia) Much of the nation is engaged in some new form of teacher evaluation, encouraged by billions of dollars in grant money from the Race to the Top competition or by the promise of a waiver from key mandates imposed under the No Child left Behind Act.

The state was required to issue the report cards this year in order to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Those schools would need to increase to at least three days or pursue a waiver from the state under the new law.

The coalition, organized under the California Office to Reform Education, received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education relieving them from many of the burdens required by the No Child Left Behind Act — waivers won by most other states excluding California itself.

Since 2011 states have been operating under individual flexibility waivers granted to individual states from certain federal requirements, while still meeting accountability, regulatory, administrative, and reporting standards.

For instance, the U.S. Department of Education under the guidance of Secretary Arne Duncan, has granted almost all states a waiver from NCLB regulations.

«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.

(Calif.) California schools with only a quarter of their students coming from low - income households would be allowed to spend federal Title I money on schoolwide programs, under a waiver process pending before the state board of education.

The Governor's bill allows charter schools to stop using an enrollment lottery if they get a waiver from the commissioner of education and use their new authority to recruit students from under - represented populations.

These include schools in which at least 40 percent of students are in poverty, schools that receive a waiver from that 40 - percent threshold, and certain schools that received waivers under the School Improvement Grant program.

Eight large urban school districts in California will open the school year with new flexibility to reduce the emphasis on standardized tests and set their own standards for student success, under an unprecedented waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act that the U.S. Department of Education granted on Tuesday.

CORE, along with a majority of states, has been operating under a federal waiver program that offered relief from the demands of NCLB in exchange for a number of conditions — one of them was to create new systems for student achievement and school accountability.

Texas has been under intense pressure from school district leaders and others to apply for a waiver, especially since it was announced on Aug. 8, 2012, that the number of Texas campuses that failed to meet AYP in 2012 doubled from the number that failed in 2011, to more than 4,000 campuses.

Under the House proposal, schools with waivers would be exempt from increasing the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low - fat milk and from reducing the levels of sodium and fat in meals.