Sentences with phrase «conditional waivers from»

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

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(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.)

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.

President Obama sparked much debate in Washington with his plan to grant states waivers from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), conditional on their willingness to embrace certain reform proposals sketched out in the administration's March 2010 proposal, «A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.»

The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.

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.

It granted states waivers from the burdens of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- conditional on continued adherence to Common Core or a federally - approved alternative.

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.