Sentences with phrase «flexibility waiver requirements»

Not wanting to run afoul of federal guidelines, PL 268 requires that whatever standards the state board adopts, they must «meet United States Department of Education flexibility waiver requirements that ensure college and career readiness of students.»

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Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

Indeed, the ESEA waiver application had clear requirements, and the state made promises, got the flexibility, isn't meeting its obligations, and is now being held accountable.

of the 2016 Appropriation Act states, «To provide additional flexibility, notwithstanding the provisions of § 22.1 - 79.1, Code of Virginia, any school division that was granted a waiver regarding the opening date of the school year for the 2011 - 12 school year under the good cause requirements shall continue to be granted a waiver for the 2016 - 17 school year and the 2017 - 2018 school year.»

Fed Ed Head Arne Duncan, who hated NCLB's dumb requirements when he ran CPS, has come up with even dumber requirements, misleadingly calling it a «Flexibility Waiver».

In September 2011, President Obama announced ESEA Flexibility, a new public education waiver plan to grant state education agencies increased flexibility in meeting NCLB reFlexibility, a new public education waiver plan to grant state education agencies increased flexibility in meeting NCLB reflexibility in meeting NCLB requirements.

Meanwhile, the nine California districts seeking flexibility from the law's requirements just resubmitted their waiver application after spending weeks revising it to address the department's questions related to their proposed teacher and principal evaluation plan and school improvement system.

The Obama administration asked states that received Race to the Top grants and flexibility on requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act to create improved learning opportunities for teachers; it can continue to press for these in its monitoring of Race to the Top grantees and the states that received Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility waivers.

As a condition of Texas» waiver from NCLB requirements — necessary to ensure exemption from unattainable accountability standards and the flexibility of federal funds — USDE had required the state to ensure that student growth at the individual teacher level would be a significant component of teacher appraisals.

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.

In July 2012, the 26th state received an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility Waiver, marking relief for more than half of the states from many of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

«Given the lack of broad - based stakeholder input into the waiver, the unrealistic timelines for implementing the teacher evaluation system under the waiver, the lack of research - based support for evaluating teachers based on student performance on state tests, and the dearth of vetted alternative measures of student learning available to use for teachers other than those teaching grades 5 - 9 reading and math, we recommend the Legislature delay taking action to implement the waiver's teacher evaluation system requirements, and urge the commissioner to continue to negotiate for more flexibility in the waiver regarding the teacher evaluation requirements, as well as to seek an extension from USDE regarding the timeline under which to implement the new system,» Eaton testified.

Although this additional flexibility may help certain «high - risk» states retain their waivers, Washington state, which recently lost its waiver, and other states with laws that do not conform to the department's requirements for teacher evaluation will not benefit.

The study found that — out of 22 policy barriers to competency - based education, as cited by principals — 20 were merely perceived or could be dealt with through creative workarounds or waivers.14 The same year, a 50 - state policy scan by the Carnegie Foundation found that only nine states provided no flexibility in granting high school credits beyond traditional seat time requirements.15

Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming recently submitted No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver requests to the U.S. Department of Education, meaning 47 states have now requested flexibility from the law's most onerous requirements.

Department of Educations Extends Transition Flexibility Waivers for StatesThe Department of Education will consider, on a state - by - state basis, requests for flexibility in two areas: the timeline for using results of teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility for personnel decisions, and field testing new assessments aligned to college - and career - readyFlexibility Waivers for StatesThe Department of Education will consider, on a state - by - state basis, requests for flexibility in two areas: the timeline for using results of teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility for personnel decisions, and field testing new assessments aligned to college - and career - readyflexibility in two areas: the timeline for using results of teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility for personnel decisions, and field testing new assessments aligned to college - and career - readyflexibility for personnel decisions, and field testing new assessments aligned to college - and career - ready standards.

I invite each interested SEA to request this flexibility pursuant to the authority in section 9401 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), which allows me to waive, with certain exceptions, any statutory or regulatory requirement of the ESEA for an SEA that receives funds under a program authorized by the ESEA and requests a waiver.