Sentences with phrase «continuing education waivers»

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Still, outraged critics, including a group of thirteen City Councilmemebers who gathered outside City Hall on Wednesday, continued to fight Black's appointment, calling on the Education Department to deny Bloomberg's request for a waiver, the news station reported.

Do conservatives want to continue to live under a waiver policy that grants the U.S. Department of Education the authority to micromanage states» annual tests, accountability systems, and teacher evaluation approaches?

Yet that's exactly what Arne Duncan and his Department of Education continue to do when it comes to their interpretation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's waiver authority.

A new paper by USC assistant professor (and Emerging Education Policy Scholar) Morgan Polikoff and his colleagues finds that many of the state accountability systems approved under the waivers continue to rely predominantly on proficiency rates instead of individual student progress over time.

(Calif.) School districts requested less than 300 waivers last year from state education requirements, continuing a four - year trend, according to a new report from the California Department of Eeducation requirements, continuing a four - year trend, according to a new report from the California Department of EducationEducation.

Given that reauthorization of the ESEA continues to languish in Congress, the waivers that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan approves could set the landscape for school accountability for years to come.

No one should be surprised that the U.S. Department of Education's new guidance for 41 states to renew the waivers granted to them under the Obama Administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its accountability provisions effectively allows states to get away with continuing their shortchanging of poor and minority children.

The Obama administration asked states that received Race to the Top grants and flexibility on requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act to create improved learning opportunities for teachers; it can continue to press for these in its monitoring of Race to the Top grantees and the states that received Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility waivers.

As the first iteration of No Child Left Behind evolves into the next generation of waivers and a future reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it will be critical for the federal government to push states to support teachers and enhance standards in ways that will continue improving the educational achievement of English language learner students.

Both were granted waivers from conflict - of - interest policies to allow them to continue to work closely with the Gates Foundation after joining the Education Department.

The secretary continued with an update on the Department of Education's waiver program to grant states flexibility from key No Child Left Behind provisions, which he described as «far too prescriptive [and] top - down from Washington.»

Schools with 20 or more such parental waivers for one grade level were permitted to continue to offer bilingual education.

Requests to exceed class size limits continue to dominate the State Board of Education's waiver calendar, with 10 districts this month seeking relief from various provisions of the laws aimed at maintaining low student - teacher ratios.

A letter Thursday from Deborah Delisle, an assistant U.S. education secretary, told state schools chiefs of an «amended waiver extension process» for states that want to continue to be free of No Child Left Behind, the Bush - era law that requires states to reward and punish schools based on standardized test scores.

NRS 641A.265 Waiver of requirements for continuing education.

On June 14, 2017, the Commission voted to grant a waiver of the continuing education requirements in T.C.A. § 62-13-303 (g) & (h) above, for non-resident licensees whose license is due for renewal prior to September 1, 2017.