Sentences with phrase «districts requested waivers»

Twenty six districts requested waivers from this requirement and all were approved with conditions.

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Additionally, waiver requests must be made available to the public to ensure accountability and provide American farmers and food providers an opportunity to seek out school districts that need affordable American - grown food.»

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.

In this case, there is no allegation that the DOE has refused a district request for a waiver of NCLB requirements.

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].»

School districts choosing to create their own evaluations must submit a waiver request to the state.

«We figured a lot of school districts would be requesting waivers from the State Board of Education this year, and Stockton Unified School District is an expert in the process,» says Dayton.

(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 Education.

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.

In Washington State, districts will only have to aim at making sure that 60 percent of black middle schoolers are proficient in reading, according to its No Child waiver request.

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.

States would have an opportunity to request a waiver of the minimum threshold from the secretary of education if they could show that their districts had sufficient funding to meet the needs of all students.

In 2009 - 10, the pilot was replaced with a more expansive waiver opportunity that allows states to request a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education to approve identified districts or schools as SES providers.

The majority of these plans requested waivers from district and contractual requirements.

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.

To date, 34 states and the District of Columbia have received NCLB waivers and several other requests are pending.

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.

After California's waiver request was rejected back in January, CORE submitted its own application to the Department of Education, marking the first time districts filed a unified proposal.

The waiver request was put together by superintendents from eight school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, who received guidance from the U.S. Department of Education and other third parties.

On February 28, 2012, 26 states and the District of Columbia submitted requests to the Department of Education for waivers.

Previous posts: District Waivers Worry State Education Chiefs; Deasy's Secret Mission to Washington; Duncan Rejects State Waiver Request.

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.

These two documents summarize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver request submitted to the U.S. Department of Education by the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), a consortium of districts dedicated to collaborative innovation and knowledge sharing.

Clovis, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sanger, and Santa Ana Unified School Districts have collectively submitted an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver request to the U.S. Department of Education.

The State Board of Education annually adopts an approved textbook list, however, districts may request a waiver to use a book not included on the state approved list.

(Calif.) In a clear sign that California's economic recovery hasn't reached all communities, a small elementary school district deep in the Central Valley has requested a waiver from the education code restricting borrowing.

That denial prompted the group of 10 districts — known as the California Office to Reform Education (CORE)-- to submit its own waiver request.

But, the memo says, he could theoretically invite the districts or states to request waivers and grant them based on their willingness to adapt his reforms.

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.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has sent conflicting signals about whether he would approve a district waiver request.

California was one of a handful of states that didn't receive an NCLB waiver but CORE — which includes the schools of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno, Oakland, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Sanger and Sacramento — was the only district - level entity to request and receive the exemption.

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).

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 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 evaluatiodistrict 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 evaluatioDistrict • 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 evaluatiodistrict 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 evaluatioDistrict 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 evaluatioDistrict • 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 evaluatiodistrict 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

Even waiver requests from districts receiving special state funding to hire additional staff to reduce class sizes have been regularly granted.

Those reviewing New York State's No Child waiver request were concerned that it was «unclear» whether the Empire State's education agency had consulted American Indian tribes (whose children attend traditional district schools throughout the Upstate region) on any aspect of the waiver package; the Department of Education didn't mention this in its letter to state officials regarding the reviewer's feedback.

One waiver, this one from the Covina - Valley Unified School District to remove Manzanita Elementary School from the Open Enrollment list of «low - achieving schools,» was approved on the condition that the district still honor any transfer requests pursuant to California's Open EnrollmDistrict to remove Manzanita Elementary School from the Open Enrollment list of «low - achieving schools,» was approved on the condition that the district still honor any transfer requests pursuant to California's Open Enrollmdistrict still honor any transfer requests pursuant to California's Open Enrollment Act.

After California's waiver request was rejected in January, CORE submitted its own application to the Department of Education, marking the first time districts filed a unified proposal.

Previous posts: «No Child» Waiver OKd for LA Unified, 7 Other CA School Districts, Update: Federal Review «Going In the Right Direction» for LAUSD, Final Decision Close on CORE's «No Child» Waiver Request, Teachers Unions Oppose NCLB Waiver That the «CA 9 ′ Want

Public school officials shall also notify the district school board of the request for a waiver hearing.