Sentences with phrase «at least state waivers»

But at least state waivers maintained the basic architecture provided by the underlying federal law.

Not exact matches

90 % of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

«To be clear, should the waiver application be denied, the State does not dispute that, at least for federal elections, the 2012 primary must be held at least 80 days before the 2012 general election.

The state received a hardship exemption from the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (or MOVE) Act last year, but at least 13 counties still failed to comply with the waiver requirements.

Ninety percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

I am confident that some of the courts, at least, will ask Duncan to point to the «plain language» of ESEA that gives him the authority to mandate statewide teacher - evaluation systems, particularly for states that want waivers on school accountability.

At least another 47 have submitted waiver applications for retroactive relief that are expected to come before the state board in May.

At least five states would need new legislation to turn their waiver proposals into reality.

At least 27 states are already developing or implementing teacher - and principal - evaluation systems that would satisfy the waiver requirements.

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

Even more importantly, at least 41 states, including Connecticut, have been given federal waivers that supersede and preempt those provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).

Meanwhile, with three statesopenly defying NCLB's strictures and at least ten states preparing waiver requests, it looks like «states may have a mishmash of different accountability systems,» says Jennings, who expects «the vast majority of states» to apply for waivers by the time Duncan releases his regulations.

And while at least one of the panelists testifying before HELP today — Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education — could cast the waivers in a negative light, Kentucky education czar Terry Holliday, and and New York State Education Commissioner John King are likely to say mostly nice things about the effort.

Every waiver state had to designate at least five percent of its lowest - performing and slowest - progressing Title I schools as «priority» schools to undergo an intervention designed to turnaround the school.

The Board may consider a waiver of these requirements if you can prove you have worked as a veterinary technician for at least one out of the last five years in another state or Canada.

The Doha Article I Waiver stated that EU - MFN countries for bananas had to negotiate a mutually agreed solution that would maintain at least «total market access» to MFN countries.

(B) A privacy board must review the proposed research at convened meetings at which a majority of the privacy board members are present, including at least one member who satisfies the criterion stated in paragraph (i)(1)(i)(B)(2) of this section, and the alteration or waiver of authorization must be approved by the majority of the privacy board members present at the meeting, unless the privacy board elects to use an expedited review procedure in accordance with paragraph (i)(2)(iv)(C) of this section;

In BC at least, the Law Society's Ethics Committee deliberated before giving somewhat reserved blessings to the great Electronic Mail advancement, stating: The question of whether an unauthorized interception of an e-mail message on the Internet causes the information to lose its privileged character is an open question in Canada: [See Dodd and Bennett, «Waiver of Privilege and the Internet»].

If you become unemployed for a period of at least four weeks and are receiving state or federal unemployment benefits, our unemployment waiver of premiums allows you to skip six months of premium.7

Work requirements: Kentucky was the first state to formally introduce work requirements based on federal guidelines; according to The New York Times, «the waiver application seeks to require most non-disabled Medicaid beneficiaries age 19 to 64 to work at least 20 hours a week.