Sentences with phrase «issue waivers from the law»

While the Harkin - Enzi plan for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act is legislatively comatose, President Obama's gambit to issue waivers from the law that will effectively eviscerate its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions remain quite alive.

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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.

The Obama administration has already opened the door to major flexibility by issuing waivers from the NCLB law, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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.

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.

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.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from and after the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008, prior to January 1, 2022, no area of the outer Continental Shelf located in the Gulf of Mexico east of the military mission line may be offered for leasing for oil and gas or natural gas unless a waiver is issued by the Secretary of Defense.

Litigation partner Richard A. Rosen and corporate partner David Huntington have co-authored an article, titled «Waivers from Securities Law Disqualifications,» in the August issue of Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law...