Sentences with phrase «government waiver request»

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The Chief of Staff was then supposed to have taken the matter up with Cabinet, which in the event of approval, would then request a waiver from the Public Procurement Authority to enable the government to sole - source the supply of vehicles.

The counties also believe a waiver request sought by the Governor's Medicaid Redesign Team from the federal government could also bring in more funds.

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.

Passed four decades ago, the Clean Air Act gave Calif. a «waiver» to petition the federal government for permission to impose its own benchmarks, but the Bush administration had denied the request.

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.

As a result, she's planning on requesting some sort of regulatory relief from the federal government by asking Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for a waiver.

The Kentucky Department of Education is seeking public comment on its request for a waiver to use carryover federal funds rather than returning them to the federal government.

House education chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the top - ranking Republican on the education committee, have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO)-- Congress's investigative arm — conduct a study on the department's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver policies, specifically examining the cost of applying for such waivers and the implications of the waivers on teacher and principal evaluation systems.

The trend, lawmakers said, showed nearly all waiver requests by state and local governments were also denied since January 2012.