Sentences with phrase «getting federal waivers»

She also pledged support for getting a federal waiver for English language learners and special education students that would exempt them from the exams.

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.

In her column, Lecker explains why the Malloy Administration's unquestioning commitment to getting a federal waiver is not the right solution.

Not exact matches

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer told reporters in central New York today acknowledged the state government's need for a $ 10 billion federal Medicaid waiver, saying «we're doing everything we can» to get the application approved.

Pennsylvania's Republican - controlled House of Representatives is advancing legislation that would stop the state from getting waivers that allow food stamp recipients to continue receiving the federal benefit if they don't meet a work requirement.

Indeed, if one looks closely at all the informed consent requirements, Eggan argues that all existing human ES lines will have to get waivers from the NIH working group to be studied with federal funding.

While recognizing that waiver provisions in federal law have repeatedly been upheld in court, Derthick cautions, «waivers threaten to get out of hand, and to undermine the rule of law.»

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

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.

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.

The nine California districts seeking a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act have gotten their foot in the door.

«Today, we have a system... where the secretary of Education gives waivers to schools that are not meeting the requirements, or tells them they are not getting a waiver and they lose federal money.

To get one of the federal waivers, states had to submit plans that included adopting curriculum standards geared toward college and career readiness, developing teacher evaluation systems that incorporated student testing data and tracking and narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students.

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.

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 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.

Whether through reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or using the Department of Education's waiver authority, federal policymakers must fix what No Child Left Behind got wrong, while salvaging what it got right: a focus on improving achievement and closing gaps for all groups of students.

While almost every state has gotten an official permission slip, federal bureaucrats retained the final word on whether a state's plan would pass muster, and those waivers were conditioned on commitments to adopt administration - approved education reforms.

The federal Education Department has already received waiver requests from 11 states, and one of the conditions for getting a waiver is developing a new accountability plan.

Education Commissioner Michael Williams denied that Texas» revised plan cedes to the conditions that the federal officials laid out for states to get the waiver.

Texas got a LOT of federal funding through the waiver.