Sentences with phrase «implement waiver requirements»

Scott Sargrad, an Education Department deputy assistant secretary, said the department recognized that states have «a heavy lift» to begin teaching the Common Core and to implement waiver requirements.

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Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

Districts have already been working together on implementing the Common Core standards, one of the requirements for a waiver, Miller said.

It is not the State Board of Education's responsibility to implement the U.S. Department of Education's requirements for the waiver, so the State Board of Education is using the meeting as a way to learn about the State Department of Education's plan to meet the 60 day deadline.

At least 27 states are already developing or implementing teacher - and principal - evaluation systems that would satisfy the waiver requirements.

Complaints like this compelled the secretary to announce his intention two weeks ago to offer states waivers from key NCLB requirements in exchange for a commitment to implement a separate set of administration - backed reforms.

Although ESSA nullified waivers requiring that states implement test - based teacher evaluation systems, the proposed rules still contain provisions related to the student growth component of T - TESS emanating from the former federal waiver requirements, which TCTA finds troublesome.

Additionally, the 34 states — plus the District of Columbia — that received a waiver last year from certain outdated and overly prescriptive requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act by the U.S. Department of Education were directed to design and implement an evaluation system for teachers and principals and to indicate how that information would be used to improve educator performance and student learning.

TCTA's Holly Eaton told legislators that when the waiver negotiations changed course to become conditional (contingent on implementing the teacher evaluation requirements), there was no opportunity for public comment or formal stakeholder input.

«Given the lack of broad - based stakeholder input into the waiver, the unrealistic timelines for implementing the teacher evaluation system under the waiver, the lack of research - based support for evaluating teachers based on student performance on state tests, and the dearth of vetted alternative measures of student learning available to use for teachers other than those teaching grades 5 - 9 reading and math, we recommend the Legislature delay taking action to implement the waiver's teacher evaluation system requirements, and urge the commissioner to continue to negotiate for more flexibility in the waiver regarding the teacher evaluation requirements, as well as to seek an extension from USDE regarding the timeline under which to implement the new system,» Eaton testified.

Other states, like California and Montana, have criticized the administration's waiver requirements for replacing one set of mandates with another set that would be costly to implement.

When Duncan saw congress stalling, he decided to come up with his own workaround, what he called «Plan B»: allow states to request waivers excusing them from certain NCLB requirements in exchange for implementing some of Duncan's favored reforms.

In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).

Offered states waivers from NCLB's adequate yearly progress requirements if they promise to implement their own systems of differentiated accountability.

Innovation status, which provides a package of waivers to public schools to implement new school designs, has been enacted through legislation in states such as Colorado and Massachusetts.55 In addition, states should reform their systems of graduation requirements in order to reflect students» comprehension of material instead of how many hours they attend a course.

Allow up to 45 % commercial space without documentation and implement HR 3700 requirement allowing lenders to approve waivers and consider local conditions;