Sentences with phrase «conditional waivers»

Yes, you need conditional waivers from the GC «AND» Subcontractor to bind the check.

So while I'm not a fan of conditional waivers as a policy, I must admit that it was an effective tool for waking the Senate out of its slumber.

«Additionally, the proposal raises questions about the Department's legal authority to grant conditional waivers in exchange for reforms not authorized by Congress,» he continued.

Under the American constitutional system, officials of the Executive branch should carry out the current law as it is, not engage in back - door legislating through conditional waivers.

These three states received one - year, conditional waivers in 2012 that could be extended for another year as long as states created rules about teacher and principal evaluations that lived up to Education Department demands.

The researchers used four California regulations to assess a farmer's favor: a 1990 law mandating the reporting of pesticide use, a 1991 rule to control rice straw burning, a 2003 water quality conditional waiver program and 2007 regulations for stationary diesel engine air pollution.

Is the president right to issue conditional waivers?

Indeed, as University of South Carolina law professor Derek W. Black writes in a recent analysis of waivers, not only does NCLB not authorize conditional waivers, even if a court were to read any waiver authorization as implicitly authorizing conditions, the actual conditions attached — «college - and career - ready standards,» new teacher evaluations, etc. — fundamentally change the law.

Obama Administration's Conditional Waivers from No Child Left Behind Provisions Spark New Legal, Policy, and Constitutional Debate

While Secretary Duncan gave early, encouraging indications that he supported such an approach, in recent years, regrettably, his department has moved ahead with an aggressive, constitutionally questionable policy of conditional waivers, leading to a fierce backlash against federal overreach.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

(We'll save for another day an examination of the constitutional aspects of all this, as Duncan's department evidently will be offering states waivers from conditional waivers, the statutory basis for which has long been in doubt.)

Note: Some of these provisions aren't in current law — some were in the stimulus bill (like Race to the Top), some are in Secretary Duncan's conditional waivers (like teacher evaluations), and some were in one of the bills passed in July (like Title I portability).

While the conditional waivers are welcomed by many states — 41 have indicated their intent to apply for them — some analysts are questioning their legal status and effect on school accountability.

In addition, some of the substantive policy changes the Obama administration wants to put in place — through RttT and the conditional waivers — are in the area of a national curriculum.

In addition, some of the substantive policy changes that Obama administration wants to put in place, through the conditional waivers, are in the area of a national curriculum.

Arne Duncan's aggressive use of «conditional waivers» from the NCLB mandates is both unconstitutional and unwise, and his ham - handed push for test - based teacher evaluations and school discipline quotas is apt to cause serious harm to America's schools.

A few caveats: First, some of these provisions aren't in current law — some were in the stimulus bill (like Race to the Top), some are in Arne Duncan's conditional waivers (like teacher evaluations), and some are in one of the bills passed this month (like Title I portability).

But I do appreciate the impulse — both the reaction to a dozen years of Washington micromanagement (taken to new heights by Arne Duncan's conditional waivers) and the very real concern about over-testing in the classroom.

The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers, by Robert Eitel and Kent Talbert with contribution from Williamson Evers, commissioned by the Pioneer Institute and co-sponsored by American Principles Project, the Pacific Research Institute, and the Federalist Society, February 2012.

USDE was not satisfied with Texas» teacher evaluation system requirements and placed the conditional waiver on high - risk status, jeopardizing the possibility that the waiver would be continued beyond the 2015 - 16 school year.

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.

«I remain concerned that temporary measures instituted by the department, such as conditional waivers, could undermine the committee's efforts to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,» Kline said in a statement.