Sentences with phrase «federal waiver»

«It's relying on H+H to achieve expense reductions that it's not been able to do previously, on MetroPlus reimbursements and on federal waivers for Medicaid money, which are highly uncertain.»

Last September, he all but required adoption of the Common Core or similar standards approved by state higher education officials if states want to receive federal waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.

California is not alone when it comes to wrestling with new accountability indicators as evidenced by the struggles of lawmakers and educators in several other states also undertaking reviews - some drawn in the wake of federal waivers from No Child Left Behind mandates.

Given that Medicaid is a federal - state partnership, it's hard to know what Walker would intend to do without getting federal waivers, said Robert Kraig, director of consumer advocacy group Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

TCTA's letter pointed to a Congressional Research Service report listing disaster - related federal waivers granted during 2005 - 2009, including two accountability waivers received by Texas in 2006, the same year that the then - commissioner issued «Not Rated» ratings to hurricane - impacted schools / districts.

As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work.

Previous posts: Reform Group Splits over Federal Waiver for LAUSD; Feds Want More Details from Waiver Application; District Waivers Worry State Education Chiefs

Although ESSA nullified waivers requiring that states implement test - based teacher evaluation systems, the proposed rules still contain provisions related to the student growth component of T - TESS emanating from the former federal waiver requirements, which TCTA finds troublesome.

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That's why Duncan announced in June that he was giving the 37 states plus the District of Columbia, which had won federal waivers from the most egregious mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, an extra year to implement teacher evaluations linked to new assessments that are supposed to be aligned to the new Common Core State Standards.

After struggling for months to find a way for California schools to take advantage of the Obama No Child Left Behind waiver, state officials said Thursday they may have found a solution - petition relief under a separate, general federal waiver provision.

Today, President Obama outlined a new federal waiver process to allow states flexibility from some of NCLB's sanctions if they meet several conditions.

Failure of Congress and the administration to find common ground on revising the nation's primary education law this year prompted President Obama to offer federal waivers to states from most of the requirements of NCLB - an offer that has proven popular among both Republican and Democratic governors.

«The bottom line is, we've got to get this done,» said Rep. Adam Zemke (D - Ann Arbor), co-sponsor of legislation that would meet federal waiver guidelines.

Representatives Robert Aderholt, Jo Bonner and Mo Brooks recently wrote Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asking him to stop tying federal waivers and grant opportunities to the adoption of CCSI.

To ease the testing burden, the administration will provide states with guidance about how they can satisfy federal testing requirements in less time or in more creative ways, including federal waivers to No Child Left Behind that the Education Department readily has handed out.

The U.S. Department of Education today approved a long - awaited federal waiver that allows LA Unified and seven other California districts to replace No Child Left Behind accountability rules with their own school improvement system.

The idea, said Deborah Sigman, deputy superintendent over the District, School and Innovation branch at the California Department of Education, is to ask for relief from NCLB sanctions using that same general federal waiver section - instead of the process currently being offered by the U.S. Department of Education.

Even more importantly, at least 41 states, including Connecticut, have been given federal waivers that supersede and preempt those provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Previous posts: Reform Group Splits over Federal Waiver for LAUSD; Civil Rights Groups Oppose LAUSD Waiver; New Concerns About LAUSD Waiver; District Waivers Worry State Education Chiefs

Forty - two states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico have received federal waivers from the law in exchange for fulfilling other requirements to evaluate teachers and schools.

This would mark a sharp departure from the Obama administration which incentivized states to use test scores to evaluate teachers through its Race to the Top program and federal waivers from No Child Left Behind.

Previous posts: Reform Group Splits over Federal Waiver for LAUSD; Mayor Overreached Against Zimmer, Says Reformer; How Prop. 32 Could Affect LAUSD

The Oregon Framework for Teacher and Administrator Evaluation and Support Systems incorporates state legislation (Senate Bill 290), rules adopted by the Oregon State Board, and federal waiver requirements.

«We informed the legislature earlier that we're not able to generate an entire new MEAP assessment in less than a year without jeopardizing our new federal waiver.

The SPA was to be paired with a federal waiver, known as a 1115 waiver, that would enroll eligible children in Medicaid managed care.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

New York education officials plan to seek a federal waiver that would enable the state to set a new teacher evaluation system.

She also pledged support for getting a federal waiver for English language learners and special education students that would exempt them from the exams.

That conversation about private equity investment will play out against the backdrop of the state's Medicaid reforms, a transformation funded by the $ 8 billion federal waiver.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, and other members of Central New York's congressional delegation will likely be asked to support the state's request for a federal waiver allowing the gondola to cross over Interstate 690 at the fairgrounds.

Federal money from a Medicaid waiver: After they enacted a number of changes designed to bend the long - term cost curve of the state - federal Medicaid program, New York officials applied for a federal waiver that would let the state invest $ 10 billion of $ 17 billion in savings over the next five years.

Until early this year, he also consulted for the Greater New York Health Association, a trade group for hospitals, and the S.E.I.U. 1199, the health workers» union, advising them on an effort to obtain a federal waiver that would bring more Medicaid money to New York State.

But the law, pending a federal waiver, still hasn't gone into effect — and now, some want to repeal it.

While no one knew it for sure at the time, there would be no federal Race to the Top funding, nor even, as it turned out, a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind that would free up existing federal dollars for new programs in Chicago.

Imposing such conditions has never been approved by Congress, and the federal waiver law does not permit it.

Because of Ohio's federal waiver, Buckeye State districts couldn't just move to evaluations based on teacher observations and the like.

California must either lower its standards for proficiency or negotiate a federal waiver.

As for ESEA flexibility waivers, a condition of receiving a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind was that states have in place «college - and career - ready standards.»

To get one of the federal waivers, states had to submit plans that included adopting curriculum standards geared toward college and career readiness, developing teacher evaluation systems that incorporated student testing data and tracking and narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students.

Q: Have any other states obtained a federal waiver for the requirement that students take just one test statewide?

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.

The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.

NCLB federal waivers: a path to further marginalization?

Not only is it state law, but it's required if Indiana wants to keep a federal waiver releasing it from strict accountability rules under No Child Left Behind.

As an example, Tuck cited Torlakson's resistance to certain reforms, such as using student test scores to evaluate teachers, which helped cost California a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind regulations.

New Hampshire, the first state in the nation to move toward awarding credit for competency rather than seat time, is planning to submit a plan for what it calls Accountability 3.0 when it applies for renewal of its federal waiver this summer.