In this case, there is no allegation that the DOE has refused
a district request for a waiver of NCLB requirements.
Not exact matches
Flyers president Richard Ehrenreich, in his
request for the
waiver, wrote that after the three - year period «we would pay GALCO a residual value amount and the village and Park
District would again own the scoreboard as a leasehold improvement.»
And Glenview
District 34 received 812
requests for fee
waivers this year, continuing a 4.5 percent increase that began last fall.
Under the bill, introduced late last week, the top 20 percent of the state's highest performing school
districts would be allowed to submit their current evaluation plans along with a
request for a
waiver to the Department of Education.
But regardless of its contents, this application — and similar
district - accountability
waiver requests — should be denied
for two reasons.
Passed in 2008, it invited proposals
for creating innovation schools, which could
request waivers to
district policies, state statutes, and union contracts — including tenure
for new teachers — if 60 percent of the teachers voted
for the Innovation Plan.
Yet the Department's
waiver policy says that, in order to receive
waivers, states «must submit a
request that addresses each of the following four principles, consistent with the definitions and timelines described later in this document, to increase the quality of instruction
for students and improve student academic achievement in the State and its [
districts].»
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a
request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility
waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding
for local school
districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.
Michigan,
for example, expects its
districts and schools to only ensure that 44 percent of all elementary students (and a mere 36 percent of high school students) were proficient in math by 2012 - 2013, according to its approved
waiver request.
AB 2555 by Assemblywoman Wilmer Carter, D - Rialto, increases the time period
districts must meet in advance of the summer months
for submitting the
waiver request to the California State Board of Education.
It's a process invoked by school
districts across New Jersey only a few times each year, a
request for a
waiver from state regulations that gets into the minutia of school operations.
In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval
for the state to seek
waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations
for an RFP
for statewide assessments
for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a
requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School
District to move to a four - day week
for school.
If a
district would like to deviate from the common calendar
for its winter or spring break, the
district must obtain approval from the ISD and
request a
waiver from the Michigan Department of Education.
Second, the new superintendent began to recognize other instances in which
district policies were likely to conflict with Dewey's approach — such as requirements
for districtwide professional development — and in some cases, offered the school
waivers even before the principal
requested them.
On February 28, 2012, 26 states and the
District of Columbia submitted
requests to the Department of Education
for waivers.
Plainfield's
waiver request would apply only to K - 5 students, who would get PE two times a week with a licensed physical education teacher
for 35 minutes each day across the
district's 17 elementary schools.
Shortly after the Obama administration announced that it's providing NCLB
waivers to all 11 states that have applied
for such flexibility to date, 26 additional states and the
District of Columbia submitted their own
waiver applications in the second round of
requests.
â cents The local educational agency has set rigorous academic performance objectives
for the evaluation system and any
waivers the
district plans to
request.
Subject:
Request by 10 school
districts for a
waiver of Section 131 (c)(1) of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (Public Law 109 - 270).
• a new
district facility plan for the Hickman County School District • district facility plan amendments for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluatio
district facility plan
for the Hickman County School
District • district facility plan amendments for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluatio
District •
district facility plan amendments for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluatio
district facility plan amendments
for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School
Districts • 2013 - 14 Local
District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluatio
District Tax Rates Levied • a
waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School
District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluatio
District • site approval
for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school
district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluatio
district indirect cost rates
for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School
for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a
request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation system
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district school board of the
request for a
waiver hearing.