Minnesota is one of many states that has been
granted waivers from the law.
President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have repeatedly attacked the law, going so far as to
grant waivers from the law to states who submit alternative accountability plans.
Not exact matches
Fast - forward to today: SNA is standing shoulder to shoulder with House Republicans, pushing to
grant schools
waivers from the requirements if they are losing money and aiming to relax the standards when the
law is reauthorized next year.
Earlier this year, the Freelancers persuaded the state Legislature and Gov. Cuomo to approve a
law granting the group a
waiver from enrolling in the new national health - insurance program.
State
law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a
waiver from the state, which would be
granted by Steiner.
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.
Eventually, 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were
granted waivers from NCLB, in effect gutting the federal
law.
Such reliance remains even though the Obama administration has
granted waivers to 43 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
from many NCLB's mandates, including the
law's central accountability provision.
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.
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.
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 federal government has
granted Indiana a three - year extension of its
waiver, which exempts the state
from certain provisions of the national
law.
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.
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.
The Obama administration began
granting states
waivers from the
law in September 2011.
States across the country have followed the District's lead, many in pursuit of rewards — such as billions of dollars in federal Race to the Top funds and
waivers from the most onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind
law — that the Obama administration
granted to states that agreed to use student test scores in teacher evaluations.
This evening, shortly after George W. Bush signed the weakened Energy Bill into
law, EPA administrator Stephen Johnson announced that California (and the 16 states that had pledged to adopt California's standards) will not be
granted a
waiver from the clean air act to put stricter pollution controls on vehicles and drive a higher CAFE standard than is included -LSB-...]
It can be argued that for the EU, a specific obligation of international
law existed in the context of the WTO, to the extent that the Doha Article I
Waiver,
granted to the EU by the Ministerial Council in 2001, expressly bound the EU to reach a mutually agreed solution on imports
from MFN countries.