Sentences with phrase «federal waivers under»

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.

As in California's CORE districts, a collaborative of ten districts that received a federal waiver under NCLB, the multiple measures can be weighted periodically — the new law requires a determination once every three years — to allow a calculation of which schools are most in need of assistance.

For this reason, the district has chosen the lesser of two evils: a federal waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act that allows the setting of different proficiency targets in exchange for promising to several overhaul measures.

Not exact matches

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.

Under the new legislation, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he supports, the city will honor immigration waivers if the federal government requests them with a judge's warrant — and even then, only if the subject of the warrant was convicted within the last five years of a violent or serious crime, or is a possible match on the terrorism watch list.

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

Under Race to the Top and the No Child Left Behind waivers, states took on major challenges that required much more coordination at both the state and federal level.

Duncan took the astonishing step of issuing waivers directly to eight California districts this summer, allowing them to operate under a different set of federal policies than the other 1,000 districts in California.

That threat is not based on any legal language in NCLB or in waivers states have received to avoid sanctions under the federal law.

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.

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.

The current practice also appears to be violating federal law under our NCLB waiver and what is understood under ESSA.

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.

Designed by the State Office of Education, it's been approved by federal officials under a waiver from No Child Left Behind requirements.

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.

Two years later, the administration gave states the opportunity to apply for waivers that exempted them from a federal requirement under No Child Left Behind that 100 percent of American students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.

Another five states will receive waivers from federal education mandates under No Child Left Behind, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, bringing the total number of waiver states to 24.

Under its new plan to comply with the federal law called the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA: for explainers, see here and here), New York has requested a waiver to let it give students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities tests that are not at their grade level but at their developmental level.

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.

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.

But while most states Hyslop studied identified fewer schools in need of improvement under the waivers, Indiana actually designated more schools as «focus» and «priority» after appealing to the federal government for flexibility.

The administration has also ignored red flags raised by peer review panels it has put in place to vet the submitted proposals — including concerns that states didn't present their proposals to American Indian tribes as required under both the waiver process (as well as under federal and state laws), and that D.C.'s plan for implementing Common Core reading and math standards was not «realistic and of high quality».

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.

But under a district waiver like the one that's being proposed, schools and teachers in LAUSD would be operating under a different set of federal rules than those in most of the rest of the state.

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.

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.

In the letter, the groups also say Wisconsin received about $ 23 million in federal money to implement Common Core in exchange for receiving a waiver for failing to meet standards under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

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.

The federal government has renewed a waiver that gives Michigan some wiggle room when it comes to school improvement requirements under No Child Left Behind.

Under waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the federal government required states to identify schools where targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement reforms in these «Focus Schools.»

(Calif.) California schools with only a quarter of their students coming from low - income households would be allowed to spend federal Title I money on schoolwide programs, under a waiver process pending before the state board of education.

Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile will be used for federal accountability for Title I schools under the state's approved federal No Child Left Behind waiver, the new teacher and principal evaluation system that was signed into law in 2012 and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.

CORE, along with a majority of states, has been operating under a federal waiver program that offered relief from the demands of NCLB in exchange for a number of conditions — one of them was to create new systems for student achievement and school accountability.

Under waivers, states had to continue reporting disaggregated data for all subgroups indicated in NCLB to the federal government.

While good in theory, SES had many implementation problems, 12 including low participation rates and lack of quality control.13 In some districts, there were scandals involving providers overcharging districts, hiring tutors with criminal records, or violating federal regulations.14 In all districts, SES siphoned off Title I funds, leaving less for other important Title I programs.15 The tutoring program was eventually phased out as the Department of Education began implementing «ESEA Flexibility,» 16 also known as waivers, and it was scrapped all together under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).17

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It is important to keep in mind that under the Clean Air Act, states can choose between the California standard and the federal standard (and indeed, many states are ready to adopt the California standard if and when it is granted the waiver).

«Without an employee's written consent and voluntary waiver of rights of confidentiality and privacy,» the MBA's president told the MLGBA, «it would be unlawful under state and federal law to release confidential employee information; it would also be unethical.»

If you qualify under federal law for a full waiver of this claim or a compromise resulting in its reduction then your repayment obligation may be eliminated or further reduced.

Judge Grimm suggested that, if parties entered into a nonwaiver agreement as a result of a «meet - and - confer» under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 (f), and that agreement was embodied in an order, any inadvertent production would be made under «judicial compulsion» and there would be no third party waiver.

Under the federal constitution, a minor has the right to a two - tiered hearing in which they are entitled to show that they are mature enough to give informed consent to the abortion, and if they are not sufficiently mature, that waiver is in their best interest.