Sentences with phrase «issue state waivers»

, it began to issue state waivers that focused school improvement status on a Targeted Achievement Gap Group (TAGG) which was comprised of (a) students at risk due to economic disadvantage; (b) English Language Learners (ELLs); and — once again (c) Students with Disabilities (SWD).

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As such, we encourage the Committee to also devote time and attention to several issues that will help ensure the long - term stability of the individual market, including: Section 1332 waivers under the ACA; long - term stability funding; limiting third - party premium payments; and returning to the states more regulatory authority over the individual and small group markets.

For local candidates running for borough and City Council offices, those waivers can be issued from the leadership of the state party.

Such an argument fundamentally states that the Legislature — which will meet only a handful of times in the months of January and February 2012 — can resolve an impasse that beset it such that it had to seek a second waiver from DOD simply because the legislature could not agree on resolving the issue for the entire session of 2011.

Salary could also become an issue because top sworn personnel can make far more than the $ 179,000 - a-year police commissioner and many are younger than 65, the age at which they could collect both their pension and salary without limits or a state waiver.

State health commissioner Howard Zucker issued a blanket waiver for the state's new e-prescribing law, allaying some concerns that the software wasn't up to the State health commissioner Howard Zucker issued a blanket waiver for the state's new e-prescribing law, allaying some concerns that the software wasn't up to the state's new e-prescribing law, allaying some concerns that the software wasn't up to the task.

The waivers have also brought states into deciding how best to meet goals, albeit with a still excessive involvement of the federal government in process issues and in the «how» of education.

But let's be honest: America's bluer states aren't likely to go this far anytime soon — states like Illinois, whose ESEA waiver request is languishing because of the teacher - evaluation issue.

We see waivers on a variety of policy issues to accommodate implementation challenges, state - specific statutes or constitutional requirements, or to encourage innovation and new ideas.

The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.

Since states are creating their own new accountability systems via ESEA waivers, they must tackle this issue if AECs are to be treated differently.

The licensing of superintendents involves similar requirements (see sidebar on p. 17), though states are more likely to issue waivers if a school board requests one.

By the time the 2012 elections moved into full swing, the Obama administration was issuing waivers to states exempting them from the most punitive parts of NCLB in exchange for sketching out their own state plans for improving teacher quality, academic standards and creating better accountability systems.

Governor Hogan's original executive order — which the attorney general's office said he may not have had the authority to issue in the first place — established such limits, creating an unbroken summer break for Maryland public schools from June 15 to Labor Day, but also allowing the State Board of Education (to which the Governor appointed me and — so far — eight other members) to issue waivers to districts that present «compelling justification» for exceeding those limits.

This left districts with a choice: delay the issuing of report cards until the scores are available «sometime this month» OR seek a waiver from state law mandating that TCAP scores count toward a student's final grade.

In response to such legislative inaction, Secretary Duncan took bold steps to foster reform — most notably by issuing ESEA waivers to states who signed on to support his priorities, such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the removal of statutory caps on the number of charter schools.

Indiana's federal No Child Left Behind waiver could be at risk after the U-S Department of Education indicated significant issues with the state's compliance.

And when we see less than half the kids are graduating without a waiver (and) the district is almost doubled the number of waivers issued in the last few years, less than half the kids are proficient on the state standardized exams... we need to do much better than we are doing.

The Education Department on Thursday issued guidance for some states to renew their waivers through the 2015 - 16 school year.

Duncan's remarks came during a Senate committee hearing about No Child Left Behind waivers the administration has issued to 34 states and the District of Columbia since 2012.

With a fellow Democrat in Miller raising even more questions about the waiver gambit — especially after giving the Obama administration cover over questions about the legality of the entire process — Duncan will likely have to call up chief school officers of waiver states to work out these issues.

So it isn't exactly shocking to see U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's move yesterday to issue a letter to state school superintendents in waiver states asking them to «incorporate, to a significant degree» more - accurate graduation rate data as part of the hodgepodge of new accountability systems approved under the waiver gambit.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

Congress has failed to revise the law since then, and the U.S. Department of Education has issued waivers to nearly all states from the law based on certain conditions.

That issue has become important to states awarded waivers from the U.S. Department of Education from NCLB requirements.

Previously, Rhee has criticized California's lack of a state law requiring the use of student achievement in measuring teachers, an issue that played a part in the Obama Administration's recent rejection of a waiver request for California.

Unlike some other states that didn't take a break from their accountability system and touted the Common Core as «this is what Arne Duncan wants,» the California leadership consistently put up a fight against the feds on waivers and a number of other issues... I actually accused them in another EdSource opinion piece of treating us like «Southern sheriffs.»

These issues, along with the fact that the Obama administration seems not to be paying attention to what is happening inside the states to which waivers have been granted, and has generally ignored concerns raised by its own peer review panels about waiver proposals, makes it hard for centrist Democrat reformers to make the case that the School Reformer - in - Chief is doing a credible job advancing reform.

The state was required to issue the report cards this year in order to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

-- Last August, the department asked states to address this issue as part of NCLB waiver renewal requirements.

But just as sweeping have been executive waivers issued from the hated No Child Left Behind Act — really the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — that have been instrumental in connecting numerous states to, among other things, the Common Core national curriculum standards.

The U.S. Department of Education issued guidance to direct reviewers as they considered states» waiver applications and to help states develop «high - quality requests» for waivers.

The new issue describes how major initiatives like the Race to the Top competition, the No Child Left Behind state waiver requirements, and the Common Core State Standards have propelled state efforts to rapidly overhaul their evaluation systems and link teacher ratings to student outcome state waiver requirements, and the Common Core State Standards have propelled state efforts to rapidly overhaul their evaluation systems and link teacher ratings to student outcome State Standards have propelled state efforts to rapidly overhaul their evaluation systems and link teacher ratings to student outcome state efforts to rapidly overhaul their evaluation systems and link teacher ratings to student outcome data.

Although the waivers issued to 34 states so far alleviate some of the immediate pressure to adhere to outmoded federal regulations, they are a band - aid solution that, in turn, is creating a haphazard patchwork of state progress.

Duncan also faced questions about his plan to issue waivers for states struggling to meet NCLB's strictures.

It also potentially undermines state authority, creating confusion over who is ultimately responsible for school accountability and improvement, and unearths issues related to the department's capacity to oversee multiple district applications and reform plans on top of the dozens of state waiver plans that it has already approved.

The Obama administration went on to propose pressing states to use the Common Core in its blueprint for reauthorizing No Child Left Behind and to do so when it decided to issue waivers from NCLB's fast - approaching (if ludicrous) 100 % proficiency requirement.

Duncan has proposed issuing waivers to states in the absence of Congressional action to reauthorize No Child Left Behind.

With reauthorization of the law caught up in congressional deadlock, that's prompted Duncan to offer to issue waivers to states from NCLB's provisions.

The bigger issue is what states would have to do to get that waiver: Enact college - and career - ready curriculum standards in reading, math, and science.

But given that regulations can only go as far as the law allows, one can also surmise that agencies can not issue waivers or regulations that allow states to evade the law.

He said that Mr. Johnson denied the waiver because climate change is an international issue and its impacts are not unique to California, so, he said, the state did not have the legally required «compelling and extraordinary» circumstances.

We successfully challenged the Bush administration's refusal to let California implement its own, stricter - than - national tailpipe emissions limits under the Clean Air Act, and in June 2009 the EPA issued a waiver to let California enforce its own automobile emissions rules, which also allowed a dozen other states to enforce the same rules.

The bill would allow farmers in the state to grow industrial hemp crops — if the federal government issues the necessary permits and waivers.

After two years of legal efforts by the Center (represented by the Western Environmental Law Center), California, 13 other states and many other conservation groups, in June 2009 the Obama administration's EPA issued the waiver.

Creates an Industrial Hemp Commission; to provide for membership of such commission; to provide for the establishment of a research program in cooperation with state universities; to provide for authority of the commission to seek certain permits or waivers from the federal government; to provide the commission with authority to issue licenses to cultivate industrial hemp for research and commercial purposes; to provide for compliance with certain prerequisites for issuance of such license.

With the Clean Power Plan's flexible design and the many tools available to grid operators to manage reliability issues, there is no reason states need a compliance waiver or delay, Moore wrote.

«It is imperative now that other Representatives and Senators co-sponsor these bills, and that President Obama and Attorney General Holder also issue waivers to allow American farmers to grow hemp under state law where legal.

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