Sentences with phrase «behind waivers»

After considerable state pushback, the U.S. Department of Education has dramatically simplified how states can apply to renew their No Child Left Behind waivers and will now require states to simply submit a letter of intent that addresses findings from department monitoring (PDF).

Partially in response to such concerns, Sargrad said, the administration thought to use the process of renewing No Child Left Behind waivers to enforce equitable distribution, leading to the August announcement of the new requirements.

Miller said the Education Department should find a way to enforce equitable distribution for all states — not just those with No Child Left Behind waivers.

«States must meet a high bar to earn that flexibility,» Miller said of No Child Left Behind waivers.

Efforts to legislate statewide teacher - evaluation systems, of the kind championed by the Obama administration in Race to the Top and as a condition for No Child Left Behind waivers, may be a whole different kettle of fish

Duncan also defended his administration's emphasis on tying teacher evaluations to student test scores in part through No Child Left Behind waivers and Race to the Top grants.

You will learn about the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers and how they will shift education priorities in your state and affect your district and school.

Some states had already started down this path, broadening the measures they used to assess school quality in response to federal education policy changes made in 2011 through the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers.2 Building on this progress, ESSA requires all states to rethink their school classification systems in consultation with community members.

The Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers have provided welcome, albeit temporary, relief from the most onerous provisions of the law but, as Carter notes, have led to a «haphazard patchwork of state progress» and have neutralized the administration's urgency for a longer - term, more comprehensive solution.

Out of the 32 states approved for No Child Left Behind waivers, eight states have a conditional waiver, meaning they have not yet satisfied the Obama administration's requirements for a new principal / teacher evaluation system, incorporation of College and Career Readiness Standards and other stipulations.

Theodora Chang discusses the benefits of No Child Left Behind waivers for English language learners and English as a second language teachers.

I managed Florida's application for No Child Left Behind waivers.

The Obama administration has tacitly endorsed the Common Core standards by including a requirement for «college - and - career - ready standards» in state applications for Race To The Top funding and No Child Left Behind waivers.

Comment from Kris Alman: How do you view No Child Left Behind waivers?

States are required to include student test scores in educator evaluations in order to receive No Child Left Behind waivers, but educators have expressed mounting concerns that they have not had time to transition to the Common Core standards and aligned assessments before being held accountable for student growth.

No Child Left Behind Waivers: Promising Ideas from Second - Round Applications An evaluation of states» No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver plans by the Center for American Progress (CAP) finds states are significantly changing their school accountability and educator effectiveness policies but that certain details of their reform plans remain murky.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks in Gary in 2011 about No Child Left Behind waivers and reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

The report is one of the first to take a close look at the evaluation tools being implemented across the country as part of the No Child Left Behind waivers issued by the Education Department over the past two years.

States and districts have been challenged to rapidly revamp outdated teacher evaluation policies through Race to the Top competitions and No Child Left Behind waivers.

Duncan's remarks came during a Senate committee hearing about No Child Left Behind waivers the administration has issued to 34 states and the District of Columbia since 2012.

This occurred at the federal level, as we all likely know, primarily via Race to the Top and the No Child Left Behind Waivers essentially forced upon states when states had to adopt VAMs (or growth models) to also reform their teachers, and subsequently their schools, in order to continue to receive the federal funds upon which all states still rely.

No child left behind waivers earn praise and criticism.

But the movement didn't really take off until the Obama administration dangled incentives — through Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers — for states to toughen up teacher evaluation.

Providing incentives to states for adopting the Common Core in the competition for Race to the Top (RTTT) grants and in granting No Child Left Behind waivers.

Moved in part by this report, Arne Duncan went on to use two tools at his disposal — Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers — to pressure states to reform their teacher evaluation systems and to include student test scores in these evaluations.

These are connected through Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind waivers, but the Core itself is just standards.

Under Race to the Top and the No Child Left Behind waivers, states took on major challenges that required much more coordination at both the state and federal level.

In order to get these No Child Left Behind waivers, states had to, among other things, adopt Common Core.

Whatever the technical merits of the standards themselves, the timeline for adoption and implementation has been driven by the Obama administration's Race to the Top program and its approach to No Child Left Behind waivers.

With No Child Left Behind waivers, it could have provided regulatory relief to fix a law that was badly out of date and not working very well.

The administration created another inducement in the form of No Child Left Behind waivers.

The change could reflect the waning influence of the Obama administration, which had for years sustained bipartisan support for charters through its Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind waiver programs.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

It was only when the development of assessments began, and the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) No Child Left Behind waiver process included clear requirements for evaluating teachers based partly on student test scores, that the unions began to balk.

Of course, the federal government clearly encouraged states to adopt the standards through its No Child Left Behind waiver program, but it did not require adoption (which is obvious insofar as several states did not adopt the standards).

New Jersey Gets No Child Left Behind Waiver Extension - Politics K - 12 - Education Week http://ow.ly/DZcPN

The Education Roundtable on Monday recommended major changes to next year's ISTEP + exam as part of a plan to maintain the state's No Child Left Behind waiver, as well as major changes to a brand new test starting in 2015 - 2016.

Ritz said after phone calls with the U.S. Department of Education regarding getting the state in compliance to extend its No Child Left Behind waiver, U.S. Department of Education officials said a spring test in 2015 must be fully operational in order for the state to keep the waiver.

She wants to dismantle the A through F grading system that's a part of Indiana's No Child Left Behind waiver.

Based on conditions in the state's No Child Left Behind waiver, that meant officials also had to provide a test aligned with the new standards to students this coming spring.

«He thought differently from other people, because his background was different,» said Rick Miller, a former deputy state superintendent who worked closely with Raymond as executive director of the eight CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts on the No Child Left Behind waiver.

State superintendent Glenda Ritz and the rest of the DOE are accepting public comment on their draft proposal to the keep the state's No Child Left Behind waiver.

Will Indiana lose the No Child Left Behind waiver if implementation and testing of the Common Core is not done until the 2015 - 16 school year?

The U.S. Department of Education released a report today showing Indiana is not in full compliance with the No Child Left Behind waiver requirements and is at risk of losing its waiver.

But there's concern that just pausing implementation could put Indiana's No Child Left Behind waiver in jeopardy, as states had to adopt of college - and career - ready standards to win approval.

Indiana's federal No Child Left Behind waiver could be at risk after the U-S Department of Education indicated significant issues with the state's compliance.

To recap, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to state superintendent Glenda Ritz on May 1, informing her Indiana was at risk of losing its No Child Left Behind waiver.

If Indiana doesn't adopt college - and career - ready standards, the state would lose its federal No Child Left Behind waiver, which could cause even bigger problems than the fight over the Common Core.

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.

That became official federal policy when the Obama administration called for statewide teacher evaluation guidelines, based in part on student performance, while soliciting for Race To The Top in 2009 and then No Child Left Behind waiver applications in 2011.