Sentences with phrase «districts applying for a waiver»

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.