California
districts applied for their waiver under their umbrella organization, the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), which led the application process.
Duncan said he would be open to other
districts applying for waivers in the future but would not permit any of them to piggyback on the CORE waiver during this school year.
Not exact matches
SPPS needed to
apply for a temporary whole grain
waiver that would allow the
district to create a menu item that would appeal to our diverse student body.
The final deal did not include a delay
for the development of a new teacher evaluation system, meaning
districts who are not able to meet the requirements by the November deadline will have to
apply for a
waiver.
Three quarters of school
districts in New York State have
applied for waivers from the new teacher evaluation rules set out by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in March.
Three - quarters of school
districts in the state have
applied for waivers from the new teacher evaluation rules set out by Gov.Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in March.
Three quarters of school
districts in the state have
applied for waivers from the new teacher evaluation rules set out by Governor Cuomo and the legislature in March.
It does permit local school boards to
apply to the Maryland State Board of Education
for waivers on behalf of their
district or individual schools, which the Board may grant
for a single school year based on a «compelling justification.»
Columbia Teachers College professor Hank Levin recounts that when the California legislature allowed
districts to
apply for waivers if they could demonstrate that laws or rules were hampering school improvement, «Fewer than 100 [
waivers] were made in the first year» in a state with more than 1,000
districts.
A group of California
districts have jointly
applied for an NCLB accountability
waiver.
Small, rural
districts could
apply for waivers for up to two years, if the new law would pose a hardship
for them.
Just
for starters, it would appear that the
waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that
apply to charter schools as well as
district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.
The absence of a student achievement - based teacher evaluation could also be a stumbling block
for districts including LAUSD who are
applying for a federal
waiver from No Child Left Behind.
Currently the
District offers Universal Prekindergarten and annually
applies for a
waiver to include a small number of 3 year old children in
District classrooms only.
An additional 28 states, including Virginia and Maryland, as well as the
District of Columbia, have indicated that they intend to
apply this month
for a second round of
waivers.
Two unknowns lurk: Duncan hasn't yet agreed to consider
district waivers in states that either didn't
apply for them or had their applications turned down, and CORE hasn't yet formally asked Brown
for his blessing, which would considerably help their case.
Los Angeles is one of nine
districts in California
applying for a
waiver as a group; the
waiver was amended last week to make it stronger and clearer, officials said.
Had Sanger been able to
apply for a
waiver on its own, the
district may have had more say in how to adapt to the administration's requirements.
Twenty - six states plus the
District of Columbia
applied for the next round of
waivers.
While several states made their NCLB
waiver application proposals and review sheets available online, the review group's letter to CORE has not been made publicly available by the Education Department in Washington or the California
districts that are
applying for the
waiver.
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.
Another concern is the fact that
districts are required to
apply for waivers from the state.
Earlier this week, a number of civil rights and school reform groups including Democrats
for Education Reform (or DFER) sent a letter to United States Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan opposing the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
waiver that LAUSD and eight other California school
districts had
applied for.
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.
The bill also allows
districts to
apply to the State
for a
waiver to reduce MoE if they're facing a serious financial crisis and can provide evidence they're in compliance with IDEA.
The
district has until March 31 to
apply for federal
waiver that allows...
Texas has been under intense pressure from school
district leaders and others to
apply for a
waiver, especially since it was announced on Aug. 8, 2012, that the number of Texas campuses that failed to meet AYP in 2012 doubled from the number that failed in 2011, to more than 4,000 campuses.
According to a message from the superintendent to school
districts, the
waiver applies only to those two days right now, and the
districts will have to
apply for the
waiver.
The bill also provides that in implementing such a program, a school
district may
apply to the commissioner
for a
waiver from the following:
This has caused class sizes to soar, tripling the number of
districts that have
applied for and received
waivers, representing nearly 30 percent of all elementary schools in the state.