Sentences with phrase «consider granting waivers»

President Obama and Duncan announced in the fall of 2011 that they would consider granting waivers because of the failure of Congress to fix or replace NCLB, officially known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

«Accordingly, the party may consider granting waivers to party executives at all levels so that they are not disenfranchised from participating in the elections should they wish to do so, provided this does not violate our rules.

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The official, David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, said he would consider granting Ms. Black, a publishing executive, the waiver she needed to take office only if Mr. Bloomberg appointed an educator to help her run the system.

(iii) appoint HBO as your agent with full power to enter into any document and / or do any act HBO may consider appropriate to confirm the grant and assignment, consent and waiver set out above;

Indeed, Schwarzenegger's last year in office - 2010 - the state board considered 1,243 waiver requests, granting 87 percent of them.

When it comes to the No Child waiver gambit, it is hard to take Duncan's statements seriously, especially after he disavowed statements by his own staff that the administration was considering granting a special waiver to a compact of eight California districts looking to evade No Child's accountability measures (and not be shackled by the intransigence of Golden State officials, who unsuccessfully pursued a waiver on their own terms).

As a response to Congress's apparent inaction, Duncan announced in June that he would consider granting regulatory relief through waivers to states that signed on to a «basket of reforms» of his choosing.

Some states were granted a multi-year waiver, and Whalen indicated the department would consider giving the CORE districts a longer extension if they complete work on their index for school accountability, called the School Quality Improvement System.

Considering how arbitrarily the administration has granted the waivers — including allowing Oregon, Michigan and Kansas to ignore No Child's accountability rules without either having put their proposed in place or rolling them out beyond a pilot stage — one can't blame Harkin for wanting to do so.

The right to conduct research involving patents may «promote the progress of science,» but this is considered an exception, a waiver, for what is otherwise intended to be an exclusive right - to - use granted by the patent.

Comment: In addition to the proposed waiver criteria, several commenters recommended that the final rule also instruct IRBs and privacy boards to consider the type of protected health information and the sensitivity of the information to be disclosed in determining whether to grant a waiver, in whole or in part, of the authorization requirements.

(c) Appoint Provider as your agent with full power to enter into any document and / or do any act Provider may consider appropriate to confirm the grant and assignment, consent and waiver set out above;