Sentences with phrase «grant waiver requests»

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Reacting to the decision, the Very Rev Dr John Chalmers, Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: «We are grateful to the Home Office who have heard our request and granted a visa waiver enabling the Rev Rola Sleiman to travel and join us at the General Assembly in Edinburgh.

Steiner was roundly criticized for heeding Mayor Bloomberg's request to grant Black a waiver to run the nation's largest public school system even though she had no experience as an educator.

This morning, Senator Schumer will point to Jamestown's recent growth in flights and new low - cost fares as a sign that Jamestown will have no trouble meeting the threshold next year and as a result, he will request the FAA grant a special waiver for the airport.

Senator Charles Schumer will be at the airport requesting the FAA grant a special waiver to Jamestown so it can keep its status in the critical Essential Air Service (EAS) program.

Still, the city sent a letter to the state Thursday requesting that Walcott be granted a waiver so that he can formally take the job because he lacks the requisite credentials, a spokeswoman said.

The denial is unusual given that all past Californian waiver requests have been granted.

Indeed, Schwarzenegger's last year in office - 2010 - the state board considered 1,243 waiver requests, granting 87 percent of them.

In addition, before this last - minute waiver request to lower the bar further, on November 29th a host of advocates wrote to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging her to «to reject New York's requested waivers under ESSA... If granted, these waivers would undermine students» access to the general curriculum and would be contrary to the spirit and intent of the ESSA.»

And in practice, the administration has granted out waivers without either paying attention to what is happening inside the states to which waivers have been granted, handing out waivers to states without requiring them to put the reforms being promised in place, and letting states gain waivers in spite of the concerns of those reviewing the requests.

Last week, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, received the news that Arizona's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver extension request had been provisionally granted with a «high - risk» label (i.e., in danger of being revoked).

D.C.'s waiver request was granted in spite of concerns that its transition plan to embrace Common Core math and reading standards was not «realistic and of high quality», and lacked a «high - quality plan» for ensuring that English Language Learners and special ed students could get strong, comprehensive, college [preparatory curricula.

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.

For a full listing of the waivers granted to Utah please see Utah's approved flexibility request at http://schools.utah.gov/data/Educational-Data/Accountability-School-Performance/Utah-ESEA-Flexibility-Request.aspx

In August of 2014 the Utah State Board of Education approved the request that was recently granted for a one year extension of the flexibility waiver.

As U.S. Secretary of Education prepared to come to Connecticut to announce that he had granted Governor Dannel Malloy's request for a federal waiver on the No Child Left Behind Law, the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper's headline read; Vermont Drops Request for Norequest for a federal waiver on the No Child Left Behind Law, the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper's headline read; Vermont Drops Request for NoRequest for No Child.

But when asked whether Texas could request a waiver from federal accountability requirements, Morath stated that there was no precedent for that to his knowledge nor did he think one would likely be granted.

The Education Department confirmed receipt of the FOIA request a week later, and granted the group's fee waiver request on January 12.

NYSED's request asks the Department to grant waivers to:

But, the memo says, he could theoretically invite the districts or states to request waivers and grant them based on their willingness to adapt his reforms.

While the waivers on their face might be legally sound, the memo continues, the authority to grant waivers in exchange for another action — such as requesting different reforms, as Duncan has indicated he would — is uncertain.

The statutes of NCLB only allow Duncan to grant waivers at state or local education agencies» requests.

The Obama administration has granted Indiana's request for a waiver from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind, officials announced Thursday.

Waivers have been granted to 33 states under the Obama administration's specific waiver program, and several other requests are still being evaluated.

Comments related to the Department's waiver request will be accepted through Thursday, April 28 and should be sent to Federal Grant Coordinator Travis Doughty at [email protected].

Taking into account the comments of the peer reviewers, we will review requests for this flexibility and, if appropriate, grant waivers through the 2013 − 2014 school year, after which time an SEA may request an extension of the flexibility.

Even waiver requests from districts receiving special state funding to hire additional staff to reduce class sizes have been regularly granted.

While he supports Duncan's move to grant waivers, the senator wants the process «to be based on state request, not on Washington mandate,» Alexander said Wednesday.

Then there is the fact that the waivers were granted in spite of the concerns of those reviewing the requests.

The Department of Education has granted waivers to states in spite of concerns raised by the panels reviewing the requests.

In September 2011, the VDOE requested a federal waiver of the timeline for Cohort I and II schools implementing a transformation model to develop and implement a teacher and principal evaluation system in their first year of the SIG (School Improvement Grant) award.

Turns out it's because the Federal Communications Commission has been granting waivers for years at the request of the Electronic Software Association, and in fact, it's just granted another.

Second, the July 2011 agreement commits EPA to grant a waiver for California's MY 2017 - 2025 greenhouse gas emission standards before California requests it or finalizes the standards to which it would apply.62

Justice Roderick L. Ireland dissented, writing that he would await the results of the ABA review rather than grant Mitchell's request for a waiver.