Sentences with phrase «federal waivers from the law»

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In March, the NYS Education Department requested a waiver from the federal law, allowing for developmentally appropriate testing standards for child with serious disabilities, and a second year of prep time for English Language Learners for children just starting to learn English.

Rather than press Congress to pass a law to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the Obama administration used federal stimulus money to encourage states to accept its policy preferences and waivers from NCLB's penalties to ensure those policies were implemented.

Eventually, 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were granted waivers from NCLB, in effect gutting the federal law.

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

Representatives of nine California districts did not head home from Washington on Friday, after two and a half days of intense discussions with federal officials, with the waiver from the No Child Left Behind law that they had been hoping for.

Duncan on Tuesday announced that schools that do the field test for the new Common Core assessment next spring can get a one - year waiver from also giving current state standardized tests required by federal law.

Its defection leaves seven of eight districts seeking to extend a waiver from the federal accountability law through the California Office to Reform Education, a nonprofit that they formed.

Increased state flexibility and experimentation with federal guidance under waivers from federal law, shifting to even greater state control of accountability systems design under the Every Student Succeeds Act

(b) The department shall study potential changes to the Medical Assistance state plan and to waivers of federal law relating to medical assistance obtained from the federal department of health and human services for all of the following purposes:

Faced with intense opposition from teachers, Sacramento City Unified announced Wednesday it would not join other California districts in reapplying for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

State officials received a waiver from the federal government releasing Indiana from the controversial mechanisms of the No Child Left Behind law, replacing them with the A-F ratings.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

Also, because of the anticipated approval of a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools and districts won't be judged as failing to meet adequate yearly progress this year, Johnson said.

The Department of Public Instruction developed the system — which identifies schools as «focus» and «priority» — to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which for the past decade has resulted in sanctions for certain schools.

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.

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Education.

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.

The federal government, as a condition for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, is requiring that states adopt a minimum of three performance levels, such as «meets expectations, doesn't meet expectations, and needs improvement.»

In September, California Gov. Jerry Brown resisted Duncan's threat to withhold $ 7.3 billion in federal funding if he signed into law Assembly Bill 484, which effectively eviscerates accountability (and gets around the administration's decision to not grant the Golden State a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized tests.

The Obama administration has awarded waivers in order to free states and the District from punitive aspects of the federal law, which was supposed to be rewritten by Congress four years ago and is increasingly seen as outdated and unworkable.

Virginia devised its achievement goals as a condition of getting a federal waiver from provisions of No Child Left Behind, the main federal education law.

Although the board approved applying for a waiver from some parts of the federal law known as the No Child Left Behind Act, this was not the same waiver that the board had approved in 2012.

Wisconsin receives waiver from federal No Child Left Behind law, ending an era in which schools and districts were penalized for not meeting «adequate yearly progress» on state tests.

Another eight states received waivers from federal education requirements under the No Child Left Behind law.

However, having multiple tests could jeopardize the state's waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law and federal funding.

The formal letter from Washington hasn't arrived, but the verdict has: The federal Department of Education has turned down California's application for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law.

Indiana and the 25 other states granted waivers from certain requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law will still have to send student data to Washington, D.C., writes Sarah D. Sparks for Education Week:

The eight districts that have formed the nonprofit organization California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, are preparing their own application for a waiver from the penalties of the No Child Left Behind law, undeterred by the federal government's rejection last month of a waiver for California.

Places that agree to make changes can receive waivers from the law's requirements — and ensure that the federal funds upon which many depend, including Title I, will continue to flow.

Oklahoma will not lose control over a portion of its federal funding next year, according to state officials, who announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Education has restored the state's waiver from the 2001 accountability law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

The federal government has granted Indiana a three - year extension of its waiver, which exempts the state from certain provisions of the national law.

The Department of Public Instruction's attempt to get a waiver from the federal government's flawed No Child Left Behind law includes plans to increase testing standards for Wisconsin pupils.

Recently, the Los Angeles Unified School District shocked many when it claimed «exemption» from the law due to a federal Department of Education waiver combined with suspension of state testing.

The state was required to issue the report cards this year in order to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

As reported yesterday in LA School Report, LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and others are in Washington today, making a final push to persuade the Obama Education Department to approve its revised application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 federal education law.

A system must be in place by the 2014 - 15 school year for Wisconsin to qualify for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

He says even though Indiana has a waiver from some of the federal No Child Left Behind law's strictest provisions, things like school letter grades and teacher evaluations are still tied to standardized test scores.

At the Education Commission of the States conference, Ed Week asked «state chiefs (and a former chief who stepped down last month) whether they were drawing heavily on those waivers from the previously federal K - 12 law for their Every Student Succeeds Act plans.»

Independent charters are not included in the California Office of Reform Education (CORE)'s statistics, because CORE's system was developed as part of a waiver its districts received from the federal government relieving them of some of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.

The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

The Republican revolt against the Common Core can be traced to President Obama's embrace of it, particularly his linking the adoption of similar standards to states» eligibility for federal education grants and to waivers from No Child Left Behind, the national education law enacted by President George W. Bush.

Former superintendent John Deasy, who resigned on Oct. 16 amid controversy over billion - dollar technology blunders, had declared a ban on the law this past August, claiming the law didn't apply to Los Angeles Unified because the district had received a federal waiver exempting it from No Child Left Behind improvement goals in the temporary absence of statewide tests.

Former Superintendent John Deasy had argued that the district was exempt from the Parent Trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law, allowing LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

Pushback against the strong federal role, goals perceived as unrealistic, and other perceived flaws in the law resulted in a migration to increased state flexibility and experimentation — with federally established principles and state - driven policies for achieving them governed by waivers from federal law.

Federal policy also has reflected much of this change, with the U.S. Department of Education providing options for states to seek waivers from some of the dated NCLB requirements (in light of delays in Congressional reauthorization of that law), in an effort to promote innovation toward satisfaction of the rigorous kinds of standards established by the common core state standards.

In a letter from a district lawyer to former state Sen. Gloria Romero obtained by The Times on Thursday, officials said the school system is not subject to the «parent trigger» law because it obtained a waiver last year from federal educational requirements that are linked to it.

In a letter last year, a U.S. Department of Education official told Deasy the federal waiver did not exempt L.A. Unified from identifying schools for improvement, corrective action or restructuring, and did not affect any related state laws.

When Williams became commissioner a year ago, he announced that Texas would pursue a waiver from the federal education law but refused to accept Duncan's conditions, such as implementing the teacher evaluation process.

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.