Sentences with phrase «grant waivers allowing»

Only in 2006 did the U.S. Department of Education finally begin to grant waivers allowing states to use academic growth as part of determining AYP goals.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis brushed aside rival candidate Bo Dietl's recent complaints on not being granted a waiver allowing him to run in the Republican mayoral primary and his assertion that the New York State Republican chairman and New York County Republican chairwoman quashed his prospects in order to boost Malliotakis.

Not exact matches

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

The agency in 1975 banned cross-ownership of a newspaper and broadcast station in the same market unless it granted a waiver, but allowed existing ownership structures to remain in place.

Not surprisingly, the Working Families Party is opposed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to end Wilson - Pakula, which allows party leaders to grant waivers for ballot access to non-party candidates.

The chairman of a county organization also has a powerful role to play in granting a waiver to allow non-party members to run on their ballot, granting what's known as a Wilson - Pakula.

No waivers for chancellor: State Education Law should be revised so that waivers can no longer be granted by the State Education Department to allow non-educators to serve as chancellor.

Schumer asked the FCC to grant a waiver that would allow investigators to unscramble anonymous phone numbers being used to call in bomb threats to Jewish community centers

MANHATTAN — State Education Commissioner David Steiner has announced the team that will help him decide whether to grant Cathie Black a waiver allowing her to become the city's next schools chancellor.

The waiver money, a matching grant program from the federal government that allows providers across the state to invest in new ways to provide and deliver care to their communities, is divided into several different pots of money.

MANHATTAN — State Education Commissioner David Steiner has granted publishing executive Cathie Black a waiver allowing her to become the city's next schools chancellor.

The law allows for waivers to be granted to «exceptionally qualified persons» who do not satisfy those conditions «but whose exceptional training and experience are the substantial equivalent of such requirements.»

Ultimately, NCLB allowed the Obama administration to dictate K - 12 policy via quid pro quo waivers granted to states desperate to escape NCLB's «100 %» mandate.

States that were granted a waiver usually allowed students who had already switched schools to continue their enrollment, but they eliminated school - choice options for other students in Title I schools previously identified as being in need of school improvement and for students in newly identified schools.

They have already hired more than 1,200 teachers as a result of the waiver allowing them to use the federal grant.

The Department of Education has granted timeline waivers to many states that missed the deadlines, allowing them extra time to comply.

Ultimately, NCLB allowed the Obama administration to dictate K - 12 policy via quid pro quo waivers granted to states desperate to escape NCLB's «100 - percent» mandate.

The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.

The Obama administration granted New Hampshire a first - of - its - kind waiver in 2015, allowing a subset of school districts to try out new exams made up of «complex, multi-part tasks that ask students to apply what they have learned in sophisticated Read more about Innovative Assessment in New Hampshire -LSB-...]

As Dropout Nation readers know by now, the Obama administration has granted waivers to 33 states allowing them to ditch the No Child Left Behind Act and the accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of strong reforms.

The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).

No one should be surprised that the U.S. Department of Education's new guidance for 41 states to renew the waivers granted to them under the Obama Administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its accountability provisions effectively allows states to get away with continuing their shortchanging of poor and minority children.

Meanwhile the Obama administration is granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications.

CCSSO has called for added flexibility, however, that would grant the Education Department authority to give states waivers that would allow local districts to experiment with different forms of assessment.

In exchange for granting waivers to states allowing them to ignore these and other provisions of federal law, states have to implement «college and career - ready» standard.

But now, with 34 states and the District of Columbia granted waivers from No Child Left Behind, some are relaxing or ignoring some of those requirements, potentially allowing low - performing students to fall through the cracks once again.

In fact, it allows for Romney and conservative and Republican reformers acting as surrogates for his campaign to make a strong case that neither Obama nor Duncan are fit to take on the tough task of advancing systemic reform from the federal level; given that swing states such as Virginia have been granted waivers despite their poor records on advancing reform, they can even argue that the waivers are politically - motivated by the president's re-election concerns (even though there is no evidence of this).

It was probably illegal: The NCLB law allowed the education secretary to grant waivers, but not with conditions that essentially rewrote the law.

JOHN KLINE: When he grants waivers, it removes some of the impetus to allow us in Congress to keep moving on rewriting the law.

Both were granted waivers from conflict - of - interest policies to allow them to continue to work closely with the Gates Foundation after joining the Education Department.

The first of its kind to be granted to districts as opposed to states, the waiver will allow the eight districts to implement a new accountability model called the School Quality Improvement System which is based on a holistic vision of student success, a collective moral imperative to prepare all students for college and career, and an emphasis on eliminating disparities between subgroups of students.

District lawyers say the Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing...

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

(i)(1) Not more than 120 charter schools shall be allowed to operate in the commonwealth at any time, excluding those approved pursuant to paragraph (3); provided, however, that of the 120 charter schools, not more than 48 shall be Horace Mann charter schools; provided, however, notwithstanding subsection (c) the 14 new Horace Mann charter schools shall not be subject to the requirement of an agreement with the local collective bargaining unit prior to board approval; provided, further, that after the charter for these 14 new Horace Mann charter schools have been granted by the board, the schools shall develop a memorandum of understanding with the school committee and the local union regarding any waivers to applicable collective bargaining agreements; provided, further, that if an agreement is not reached on the memorandum of understanding at least 30 days before the scheduled opening of the school, the charter school shall operate under the terms of its charter until an agreement is reached; provided, further, that not less 4 of the new Horace Mann charter schools shall be located in a municipality with more than 500,000 residents; and not more than 72 shall be commonwealth charter schools.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

Considering how arbitrarily the administration has granted the waivers — including allowing Oregon, Michigan and Kansas to ignore No Child's accountability rules without either having put their proposed in place or rolling them out beyond a pilot stage — one can't blame Harkin for wanting to do so.

The waiver granted to the state that allowed the administration of the Statewide SAT to 11th grade students had been applauded by the CSDE as a worthy adjustment.

As with the earlier granting of waivers to grant states, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan seems willing to allow states to put any form of accountability system in place even if it is unlikely to do the job intended.

The waiver granted these schools an extended timeline by which both cohorts were allowed to use the 2011 - 12 school year to develop evaluation systems and the 2012 - 13 year to pilot.

«Last year one of our competitors was granted a waiver to run a car that was 2 inches wider than the GT rules allowed, and the regulations were subsequently changed to allow all of the cars in GT to race with this increased width in 2012,» said Gary Pratt, Corvette Racing team manager.

In January 2016, Kent was seeking a waiver from the Pine Barrens Commission to allow construction, but even if the waiver were granted, Kent was still getting backlash from the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, which is not connected to the commission.

The Clean Air Act empowers the federal government to set tailpipe emissions standards, but a waiver granted to California allows the state to impose stricter air pollution standards than those set by the feds.

We also were asked by commenters to provide an exclusion for research subject to IRB oversight or research that has been granted a waiver of authorization pursuant to proposed § 164.510, to exempt «in - house» research from the accounting provision, and to allow covered entities to describe the type of disclosures they have made to research projects, without specifically listing each disclosure.

The waiver is being granted to allow owners in these projects to obtain individual insurance policies for their units as required by state or local condominium laws and FHA requirements.