Sentences with phrase «for waivers from the law»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has indicated states may be able to apply this fall for waivers from the law's requirements if they develop their own accountability systems.

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Curran's effort to end fee - waivers for nonprofits last month led the county legislature to unanimously pass a law exempting youth, charity and senior teams from parks fees.

According to the state Retirement and Social Security Law, which was last amended in 2008, in order to receive approval for a section 211 waiver from the state's three - member Civil Service commission, a jurisdiction must demonstrate «an urgent need for his or her services» because of «an unplanned, unpredictable, unexpected vacancy and sufficient time is not available to recruit a qualified individual.»

State law barred her from getting her pension and making more than $ 30,000 without applying for a waiver.

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.

The GOP's proposed law would prevent individuals from using that waiver to run for office in Nassau.

The state had asked for — and up until this point received — the waiver from the 2008 law each year since its approval.

Under state law, individuals convicted of a felony must get a waiver from the courts, known as a «certificate of good conduct,» to run for public office.

New York had asked for — and up until this point received — the waiver from the 2008 law each year since its approval.

The governor said he was compelled to veto the bill for several reasons: That state law prohibited him from signing the bill, that it would prompt other cities to clamor for a waiver on their fees, that such a change might be better suited during the annual budget process, and that bondholders might be put at risk due to revenues lost by waiving the fees.

Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act remains stalled in Congress, but the Obama administration continues to push ahead with big changes to the accountability system at its core, with more than half the states now having been approved for waivers from major mandates of the law.

The waivers, which are now in place in 42 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, allow states to get out from under many of the mandates of the NCLB law in exchange for embracing certain education redesign priorities.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

It is hard to see what else the administration could have done, given the failure of Congress to make corrections itself, the manifest impossibility of carrying on with the law as written, and the protest that would have come from Democrats in Congress and the army of education reformers if the administration had simply settled for waivers.

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.

And waivers from the No Child Left Behind law have allowed states to «unlawfully» waive accountability requirements in exchange for adopting the Common Core.

(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:

Nine California districts resubmitted their application Tuesday for a waiver from key provisions and sanctions of the No Child Left Behind law after spending weeks revising the application in response to dozens of questions by a panel of reviewers from the U.S. Department of Education.

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.

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.

For the last three years, the Obama administration has given waivers from the law's most onerous conditions, including that every child in a school must be deemed proficient in reading and math by 2014.

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.

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.

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.»

His proposal calls for the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a process for granting a «waiver from compliance» with the law to any school food program that «verifies a net loss» for a period of six months beginning July 1, 2013.

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.

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.

The Obama administration offered waivers from the law's requirement that states steadily increase the number of students graded proficient on standardized exams to 37 states that agreed to other accountability measures, including new evaluations for teachers and principals.

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.

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.

And the state recently refused to include a teacher evaluation system based on student test scores in its application for a waiver from the mandates of No Child Left Behind laws.

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.»

The Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers have provided welcome, albeit temporary, relief from the most onerous provisions of the law but, as Carter notes, have led to a «haphazard patchwork of state progress» and have neutralized the administration's urgency for a longer - term, more comprehensive solution.

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 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.

The U.S. Department of Education has granted six California districts affiliated with the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law for another school year.

In 2011, it started granting waivers to states to free them from the more onerous requirements of the law in exchange for embracing Obama's policies, such as evaluating teachers in part based on student test scores.

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 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.

Automatic closure laws «identify a threshold of minimally - acceptable performance» for charter schools; schools falling below this threshold at the time of renewal, or that remain below this threshold for a set amount of time, are automatically closed.29 The National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waivers.

When President Obama announced a plan in September to allow states to apply for waivers from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, he took a shot at Congress.

While the Harkin - Enzi plan for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act is legislatively comatose, President Obama's gambit to issue waivers from the law that will effectively eviscerate its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions remain quite alive.