(Calif.) Confronted with a host of new policies and conditions created by a wholesale restructuring of the school testing and accountability system,
local educational agencies submitted 416 waiver applications last year — a 30 percent increase over 2016.
Washington's high - risk designation specified that the State must
submit, by May 1, 2014, final guidelines for teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of ESEA flexibility, including requiring
local educational agencies (LEAs) to use student achievement on CCR State assessments to measure student learning growth in those systems for teachers of tested grades and subjects.