Sentences with phrase «in waiver applications»

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

In the waiver application, expected to be accepted on Monday, the mayor emphasized Black's managerial background as Chairman of Hearst Magazines, but also noted her membership to several educational boards including that of the Harlem Village Academies Charter School.

Because Washington first made that commitment in its waiver application of February 27, 2012, and Washington was unable to take the steps necessary to fulfill that commitment even after having been given an additional school year (2012 — 2013) to do so, it was placed on high - risk status on August 14, 2013.

New York is one state that stood out in the waiver application process for submitting detailed and comprehensive information about its plans to teach English language learner students in both its move to college - and career - ready standards and its efforts to improve leadership and instruction.

Remarkably, one of those big changes spelled out in the waiver application — a reworking of the metrics state officials use in handing out the state's school letter grades — passed Wednesday morning, one day before the Obama administration's announcement.

Not exact matches

However, thus far the administration has maintained the sanctions, including the denial of ExxonMobil's application for a sanctions waiver that would have allowed it to operate in certain Russian fields.

More than 3,800 applications have been sent in for waivers from Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer told reporters in central New York today acknowledged the state government's need for a $ 10 billion federal Medicaid waiver, saying «we're doing everything we can» to get the application approved.

Both Cuomo and state Health Commissioner Nirav Shah, as part of the governor's annual budget address, noted that New York's waiver request was submitted 18 months ago, while pointing out that other states with similarly sized applications had theirs approved in shorter time periods.

State Medicaid director Jason Helgerson is back in Puerto Rico trying to put the finishing touches on an application for a Medicaid waiver the island can send the federal government.

In December 2013, the Cuomo administration removed $ 2 billion from its $ 10 billion waiver application with the federal government, which would allow the state to reinvest a portion of its savings.

«The decision to reject the waiver application submitted by Mayor Bloomberg is a tremendous victory for the more than one million children in the New York City public school system,» he said.

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

Bloomberg, who has not yet submitted an official application to Steiner for the waiver, also weighed in on the schools chancellor appointment during an unrelated press conference Wednesday afternoon, once again insisting that Black, a prominent magazine publishing executive, was qualified for the position.

The mayor said that his office would be submitting Black's waiver application in the coming days, insisting that the delay was not a response to recent criticism.

Moreover, unlike the National Interest Waiver category, which has a large subjective component, qualifying as an OPR is far more formulaic: If you can prove that you meet the requirements and have well - drafted letters of recommendation from recognized experts stating that you are outstanding in your field, your application will most likely be approved.

In its analysis of the eleven waiver applications, the Center on Education Policy found that nine state applicants will base almost all accountability decisions on the achievement of only two students groups; i.e., all students and a «disadvantaged» student group or «super subgroup.»

Nine California districts resubmitted their application Tuesday for a waiver from key provisions and sanctions of the No Child Left Behind law after spending weeks revising the application in response to dozens of questions by a panel of reviewers from the U.S. Department of Education.

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

The uptick in requests in 2017 reversed a five year trend where LEAs were filing fewer waiver applications following the tumultuous years of the recession where the board activity sought to reduce the strain on cash - strapped schools.

At least another 47 have submitted waiver applications for retroactive relief that are expected to come before the state board in May.

That became official federal policy when the Obama administration called for statewide teacher evaluation guidelines, based in part on student performance, while soliciting for Race To The Top in 2009 and then No Child Left Behind waiver applications in 2011.

Based upon the factual evidence documented at www.UtahnsAgainstCommonCore.com I ask the Governor, State Board of Education, and State Superintendent to immediately take the steps necessary to rescind Common Core adoption, SBAC membership, the Race to the Top application, the No Child Left Behind waiver, and all other requirements upon the state that are related to these, and return to the Utah Core standards in use prior to Common Core adoption.

The efforts of the group are likely to be included in an application the state may make to receive a waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements for next year, which punish schools unable to meet rising national performance benchmarks.

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).

«Not one of the local teachers» associations in the eight school districts was included in the discussion or signed the waiver application.»

California submitted an application for a state waiver back in January, but was rejected because it was unable to include provisions that linked teacher evaluations to student performance.

The group's waiver application has sparked controversy among other state superintendents, who see a district waiver as giving too much power to locally - run districts, as well as teachers unions that argue they were not consulted in constructing CORE's academic accountability system, known as the School Quality Improvement Index.

Two unknowns lurk: Duncan hasn't yet agreed to consider district waivers in states that either didn't apply for them or had their applications turned down, and CORE hasn't yet formally asked Brown for his blessing, which would considerably help their case.

The Obama administration has tacitly endorsed the Common Core standards by including a requirement for «college - and - career - ready standards» in state applications for Race To The Top funding and No Child Left Behind waivers.

After California's waiver request was rejected back in January, CORE submitted its own application to the Department of Education, marking the first time districts filed a unified proposal.

Linking teacher improvement to student test scores is included in their plan, a hotly - contested method that was at the heart of disagreements with past California No Child waiver applications.

Furthermore, through Louisiana's Elementary and Secondary Education Act Waiver Application, the state will include student scores on ACT tests in a simplified school performance score, beginning in the 2012 - 2013 school year.

When the Obama administration rejected California's first application for a waiver in 2012, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said, «It is disappointing that our state's request — which enjoyed such strong support from parents, teachers, administrators, and education advocates across California — has been rejected.»

As reported yesterday in LA School Report, LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and others are in Washington today, making a final push to persuade the Obama Education Department to approve its revised application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 federal education law.

While several states made their NCLB waiver application proposals and review sheets available online, the review group's letter to CORE has not been made publicly available by the Education Department in Washington or the California districts that are applying for the waiver.

Nothing in the proposals to the Broad Foundation would shock anyone who had read the NCLB waiver application, Ms. Morgan added.Essentially, the state believes that its turnaround strategies combine the best of outside research and close support of school stakeholders.

Q: CORE's initial waiver application states that your plan «is rooted in shared learning and responsibility for student achievement.»

And the state recently refused to include a teacher evaluation system based on student test scores in its application for a waiver from the mandates of No Child Left Behind laws.

Specifically, those reviewing states» waiver applications have been encouraged to consider the manner in which states address the needs of English language learners in each of these principle areas, with the exception of principle four.

While most states were granted waivers, giving them access to federal funds in exchange for promised policy changes, California's application was rejected.

Pryor also said he intends to include this plan in the state's application for a waiver to the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Law.

TXCC is assisting TEA in reviewing and providing feedback on the state's ESEA waiver request application.

We request that prior to submitting the waiver application, the State Education Department prepare and publicly share the costs of the waiver and that the concerns expressed in the principals» letter be addressed.

Wisconsin was one of 26 states that applied for a waiver in the second round of applications.

A review of the improvements all 11 states made to their waiver applications based on feedback from the department and the peer review panel indicates that New Mexico wasn't alone in failing to meet expectations in those areas at the outset.

In other waiver - related news, the U.S. Department of Education announced that the third round of waiver applications will be due September 6, 2012.

School districts submitted nearly 900 applications for waivers from various elements of the state's Education Code in 2011 with the California State Board of Education granting its approval 75 percent of the time.

Shortly after the Obama administration announced that it's providing NCLB waivers to all 11 states that have applied for such flexibility to date, 26 additional states and the District of Columbia submitted their own waiver applications in the second round of requests.

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