Sentences with phrase «waiver requirements in»

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.

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The Committee is governed by the same rules regarding meetings (including meetings in person or by telephone or other similar communications equipment), action without meetings, notice, waiver of notice, and quorum and voting requirements as are applicable to the Board.

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.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans became the sixth plaintiff to lob a complaint against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule when the insurer filed a suit in late September challenging the class - action waiver requirement under the rule's best interest contract exemption, or BICE.

Importers of such samples may apply for a waiver from the COLA requirements from TTB in the form of a letter request.

For example, in Dallas, I'm able to break even, but even I could make my program look like it was not breaking even for six months [a requirement for districts seeking a waiver].

But the Washington Post reports that when the full Senate appropriations committee considers that bill, an amendment will be offered which makes permanent the USDA's whole grain waiver and which would also postpone upcoming requirements that sodium in school food be further reduced.

As I reported here back in March, House lawmakers were able to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on two important new school food requirements: an increase in fruit served at breakfast and the implementation of the widely lauded «Smart Snacks in School» rules.

While children in the U.S. are often required to be current on their vaccinations or receive a special waiver in order to attend public school, there is no requirement for adult vaccinations, despite several diseases that continue to present dangers.

Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

In addition, they said the state is in the process of asking the U.S. Department of Education for another waiver to ease testing requirements for ESL students and students with disabilitieIn addition, they said the state is in the process of asking the U.S. Department of Education for another waiver to ease testing requirements for ESL students and students with disabilitiein the process of asking the U.S. Department of Education for another waiver to ease testing requirements for ESL students and students with disabilities.

City Housing Authority officials engaged in a «nefarious scheme» to exempt apartments from requirements that they be annually inspected for lead paint — even though they can't confirm those units qualified for such a waiver, an amended lawsuit claims.

Lawyers for the parents, who filed three separate lawsuits in Albany County Supreme Court this month, argued that State Education Commissioner David Steiner erred in granting Black a waiver from a requirement that she possess a master's degree — something they said he doesn't have the power to do.

She was the first chancellor in almost two decades who met all the formal requirements for the job and didn't need a state waiver.

«As you know... the Commissioner is empowered to grant a waiver to an «exceptionally qualified» candidate who does not meet all the graduate course or teaching requirements in law if he finds that the candidate has «exceptional training and experience» which are the «substantial equivalent» of such requirements,» Steiner wrote in the letter addressed to Brooklyn Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and several other officials who expressed concern about Black's qualifications.

Rep. Faso Vote Record Tracking Rep. Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com Customs and Border Protection Polygraph Waiver — Vote Passed (282 - 137, 11 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would authorize the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to waive the requirement that applicants for law enforcement positions at CBP undergo polygraph -LSB-...]

The waiver of the requirement for the use of valid drivers» licenses issued by appropriate Ghanaian authorities in Article 13 of the agreement, smacks of wanton disregard for Ghanaian law and seeks to impose American law on the country.

Moreover, unlike the National Interest Waiver category, which has a large subjective component, qualifying as an OPR is far more formulaic: If you can prove that you meet the requirements and have well - drafted letters of recommendation from recognized experts stating that you are outstanding in your field, your application will most likely be approved.

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.

It is possible to purchase raw almonds in the US, but it has to be done very carefully from vendors selling small quantities that have a waiver from the pasteurization requirement.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

President Barack Obama stands with educators and students in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 23, 2011 as he speaks about details to give states waivers from requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

The Obama administration has made a number of adjustments to its initial waiver requirements, especially in the area of teacher evaluation, which has been the biggest struggle for states.

Squaring this circle would be difficult in the best of circumstances, but the department's early narrative about «tight on ends, loose on means» has been belied by its actual work (e.g., waiver requirements, OCR).

He established a waiver process that effectively allowed two - thirds of the states to deviate from various requirements of the law — most prominently the requirement that all students be proficient in math and reading by the end of this year.

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

What the Obama administration just did with education would be a mild case, in which waivers are combined with new requirements lacking a basis in law, but the more serious case is the Affordable Care Act, under which, without any warrant that I have been able to find in the law itself, the administration granted more than 1,400 waivers to labor unions and small businesses that were offering less insurance coverage than the law requires.

Parents could request a waiver from these requirements, but only after their child had spent 30 days in a sheltered English - immersion classroom and only if the parent personally visited the school.

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 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 can be sought in a variety of areas, ranging from personnel requirements, to curriculum, to length of the school day.

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factor.

In states operating Title I programs under ESEA accountability waivers, curriculum content standards and assessments must meet the additional requirement of evaluating whether students are «college and career - ready.»

In 2011, the White House announced it would offer waivers from the law, but states that want them must agree to fulfill other requirements to evaluate teachers and schools.

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

And waivers from the No Child Left Behind law have allowed states to «unlawfully» waive accountability requirements in exchange for adopting the Common Core.

The primary purposes of both AYP requirements under the ESEA statute and alternative state performance measures in waiver states are to determine whether schools are making sufficient progress and to select low - performing schools for interventions or especially high - performing schools for rewards.

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.

Michigan could lose its waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements if the state legislature does not adopt proposed changes to the state's teacher evaluation system, U.S. Department of Education officials said in a report.

In her Nov. 22 letter (starts on page 6), Assistant Secretary of Education Deborah Delisle wrote, «The requirements to determine whether schools have made adequate yearly progress (AYP) and to identify schools for improvement, corrective action and restructuring have not been waived, and any State laws or regulations, including those related to AYP or school improvement status, are not affected by the waivers granted to your district.»

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

Another active area for waivers in 2011 that was consistent with prior years relates to requirements tied to the Quality Education Investment Act.

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

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

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.

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.

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Education.

DPI also is required to ask the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver from federal requirements that mandate one test be given to all students, in order to provide schools with options of tests.

Those waivers, in turn, have their own accountability requirements.

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.