Sentences with phrase «federal waivers granted»

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.

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.

District lawyers say the Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing...

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Despite the President's federal agenda, California — which has the largest automobile market in the country — can set its own standards thanks to a waiver in the Clean Air Act, which grants the state considerable influence over the auto industry, the Times reports.

«The same helicopters the Federal Government had months back, partly funded and had granted approvals and waivers for the purchase and importation into the country.»

De Blasio spoke with state lawmakers for several hours and is due to meet with Cuomo later in the day for a news conference to push the federal government to grant a Medicaid waiver that the governor's administration says his vital to save several Brooklyn - based hospitals.

New York committed to the evaluation system and to controversial Common Core learning standards under the federal Race to the Top grant and in waivers under the broad federal No Child Left Behind education law.

The waiver money, a matching grant program from the federal government that allows providers across the state to invest in new ways to provide and deliver care to their communities, is divided into several different pots of money.

Two out of three U.S. states overhauled teacher evaluations between 2009 and 2015, supported by federal incentives such as Race to the Top and Teacher Incentive Fund grants, as well as No Child Left Behind Act waivers.

The online program needed the waiver, the first of its kind, so its students would be eligible to apply for federal Pell Grants: that's because CFA doesn't use credit hours, or even traditional college «courses.»

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

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

Critics note, however, that the federal government has encouraged states to adopt the Common Core through the Race to the Top competitive grant program and a streamlined path to waivers from the provisions of No Child Left Behind.

Following the introduction of Common Core, the Administration offered $ 4.35 billion in federal Race to the Top grant money, along with waivers from the onerous provisions of the widely derided No Child Left Behind Act.

They have already hired more than 1,200 teachers as a result of the waiver allowing them to use the federal grant.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

The exact amount of any federal penalty for noncompliance is unpredictable, as is the likelihood that U.S. Department of Education would grant Indiana a waiver for the years in which the future assessment is being developed.

Tying student growth to teacher and principal evaluations has proven difficult for states, but it's been a focus of several federal initiatives, including waivers and the Race to the Top grant program.

In granting waivers from NCLB's requirements, the Obama administration further pushed a federal agenda that included Common Core standards and more reliable teacher evaluations.

That led eight school districts within the state to join forces, seeking a federal waiver on their own, which was granted earlier this month.

To win federal Race to the Top grants or waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), most states adopted teacher and principal evaluation systems based heavily on student test scores.

Jindal names the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the suit, which argues that states are forced to cede their «sovereign authority over education policy to the federal government» to receive federal grants and police waivers linked to adoption of the standards.

Common Core isn't required, but critics say eligibility requirements for federal grants and waivers closely align with the standards.

In the last year, though, grassroots opposition has been brewing among conservatives who point to grants and waivers linked to the Common Core as a sign of a federal takeover of education.

The decision three years ago by President Barack Obama to not push for a budget for 2010 - 2011, a move to which Democrats who controlled all of Congress at the time had acquiesced (even as it was clear that the party would lose control of the federal lower house), has resulted in sequestration - triggered budget cuts that denies the administration funding it can leverage through competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top in order to force states to fulfill their promises under the waiver.

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.

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.

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.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

In exchange for granting waivers to states allowing them to ignore these and other provisions of federal law, states have to implement «college and career - ready» standard.

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:

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

The two biggest statewide teachers unions — California Teachers Association (CTA) and California Federation of Teachers (CFT)-- have problems with the waivers granted to eight school districts from the federal program, No Child Left Behind.

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

And McGuinn said Obama is sure to exploit that, with Christie far from the only Republican governor who has embraced Obama's education policies through the Race to the Top grants and most recently state waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The new federal education law grants the Department of Education the ability to waive certain NCLB or Waiver requirements in the interest of a smooth transition to the new law (ESSA) with a January 2017 cross-over target.

In fact, it allows for Romney and conservative and Republican reformers acting as surrogates for his campaign to make a strong case that neither Obama nor Duncan are fit to take on the tough task of advancing systemic reform from the federal level; given that swing states such as Virginia have been granted waivers despite their poor records on advancing reform, they can even argue that the waivers are politically - motivated by the president's re-election concerns (even though there is no evidence of this).

As U.S. Secretary of Education prepared to come to Connecticut to announce that he had granted Governor Dannel Malloy's request for a federal waiver on the No Child Left Behind Law, the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper's headline read; Vermont Drops Request for No Child.

Huberty urged Morath to reach out the U.S. Department of Education to find out whether a waiver from testing could be granted and to report back on the financial ramifications of failing to meet federal requirements in affected districts.

Researchers, as situated in the federal context surrounding these systems (including more than $ 4 billion now released to 19 states via Race to the Top and now 43 NCLB waivers also granted), examined the observational systems, rather than the VAMs themselves, as these observational systems typically accompany the VAM components in these (oft - high - stakes) systems.

Since 2011 states have been operating under individual flexibility waivers granted to individual states from certain federal requirements, while still meeting accountability, regulatory, administrative, and reporting standards.

But when asked whether Texas could request a waiver from federal accountability requirements, Morath stated that there was no precedent for that to his knowledge nor did he think one would likely be granted.

Today, changes to federal accountability policy and the state plans that have been submitted for compliance purposes herald a national shift toward the work the CORE districts have been doing since their waiver was granted.

While most states were granted waivers, giving them access to federal funds in exchange for promised policy changes, California's application was rejected.

«For the first time ever, the federal Department of Education granted a waiver to individual entities,» said Tuck.

But the U.S. Department of Education, which granted the waiver and was asked to clarify its conditions, stated at the time that neither the federal government nor any other entity can override a state law.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

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.

For the few states that haven't been granted a No Child waiver, there's the matter that the federal law itself.