Sentences with phrase «new federal waiver»

Today, President Obama outlined a new federal waiver process to allow states flexibility from some of NCLB's sanctions if they meet several conditions.

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Prior to the new ruling, companies wanting to use drones needed to seek waivers from the federal government.

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.

New York officials pointed out several times during the trip that they had successfully negotiated a waiver with the federal government that brought back $ 8 billion to reinvest in the state's Medicaid program.

New York committed to the evaluation system and to controversial Common Core learning standards under the federal Race to the Top grant and in waivers under the broad federal No Child Left Behind education law.

The waiver money, a matching grant program from the federal government that allows providers across the state to invest in new ways to provide and deliver care to their communities, is divided into several different pots of money.

«He was instrumental in redesigning New York's Medicaid system to lower costs and help more residents, was invaluable with our efforts to secure the Medicaid waiver from the Obama administration that allowed the largest healthcare system transformation in the nation to continue, and greatly helped in our efforts to defeat punitive Republican federal legislation that would have devastated New York's healthcare network.

The report now becomes part of the House record, and although it issued no binding recommendations, Maloney said «it doesn't help» New York's effort to receive a $ 10 billion waiver from the federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Under the new legislation, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he supports, the city will honor immigration waivers if the federal government requests them with a judge's warrant — and even then, only if the subject of the warrant was convicted within the last five years of a violent or serious crime, or is a possible match on the terrorism watch list.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, and other members of Central New York's congressional delegation will likely be asked to support the state's request for a federal waiver allowing the gondola to cross over Interstate 690 at the fairgrounds.

Federal money from a Medicaid waiver: After they enacted a number of changes designed to bend the long - term cost curve of the state - federal Medicaid program, New York officials applied for a federal waiver that would let the state invest $ 10 billion of $ 17 billion in savings over the next fiveFederal money from a Medicaid waiver: After they enacted a number of changes designed to bend the long - term cost curve of the state - federal Medicaid program, New York officials applied for a federal waiver that would let the state invest $ 10 billion of $ 17 billion in savings over the next fivefederal Medicaid program, New York officials applied for a federal waiver that would let the state invest $ 10 billion of $ 17 billion in savings over the next fivefederal waiver that would let the state invest $ 10 billion of $ 17 billion in savings over the next five years.

Until early this year, he also consulted for the Greater New York Health Association, a trade group for hospitals, and the S.E.I.U. 1199, the health workers» union, advising them on an effort to obtain a federal waiver that would bring more Medicaid money to New York State.

As in California's CORE districts, a collaborative of ten districts that received a federal waiver under NCLB, the multiple measures can be weighted periodically — the new law requires a determination once every three years — to allow a calculation of which schools are most in need of assistance.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

(The New York Times called the state waiver strategy «the most sweeping use of executive authority to rewrite federal education law» since the 1960s.)

First, earlier this month as part of a «waiver» application to the federal government, New York proposed an additional way to assess some students with disabilities, known as «out - of - level» testing.

While no one knew it for sure at the time, there would be no federal Race to the Top funding, nor even, as it turned out, a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind that would free up existing federal dollars for new programs in Chicago.

Caught in the maelstrom, the Obama administration was unable to defend against a bipartisan move on Capitol Hill to end waivers altogether by enacting, for the first time since 2002, a new federal education law, ESSA.

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

Duncan on Tuesday announced that schools that do the field test for the new Common Core assessment next spring can get a one - year waiver from also giving current state standardized tests required by federal law.

New Hampshire, the first state in the nation to move toward awarding credit for competency rather than seat time, is planning to submit a plan for what it calls Accountability 3.0 when it applies for renewal of its federal waiver this summer.

California is not alone when it comes to wrestling with new accountability indicators as evidenced by the struggles of lawmakers and educators in several other states also undertaking reviews - some drawn in the wake of federal waivers from No Child Left Behind mandates.

After months of negotiations, seven California school districts have received a one - year extension of the waivers from the federal government exempting them from key provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in return for meeting a slew of new requirements.

As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work.

Under its new plan to comply with the federal law called the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA: for explainers, see here and here), New York has requested a waiver to let it give students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities tests that are not at their grade level but at their developmental levnew plan to comply with the federal law called the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA: for explainers, see here and here), New York has requested a waiver to let it give students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities tests that are not at their grade level but at their developmental levNew York has requested a waiver to let it give students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities tests that are not at their grade level but at their developmental level.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

The best indicator of the imperfections of NCLB is the large number of states that the federal government has awarded waivers from NCLB requirements in exchange for planning and pursuing new policies, such as enhanced teacher evaluation systems.

Feds offer new details about NCLB waiver flexibility SI&A Cabinet Report: With the Legislature creeping closer to deciding the fate of AB 5 — which would restructure teacher evaluations in California — there's new focus on the state also winning a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind mandates.

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

As many states embark on implementing their waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, New Jersey is taking an approach centered on the creation of seven Regional Achievement Centers that will monitor and intervene in the state's lowest - performing schools, which ultimately could be subject to closure by the state.

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The new federal education law grants the Department of Education the ability to waive certain NCLB or Waiver requirements in the interest of a smooth transition to the new law (ESSA) with a January 2017 cross-over target.

Thanks to this federal waiver and Connecticut's new «education reform» law, our children will now be facing an education system that is either teaching to the test or testing the students beginning in the third grade and running every year after that.

More controversial were his decisions to exempt teachers at certain low performing schools from seniority - based layoffs and to adopt a federal No Child Left Behind waiver that requires the adoption of a new teacher evaluation system.

Hanna Skandera, New Mexico's secretary - designate of education, said federal officials wanted more information about the state's plans to help schools implement the Common Core State Standards and narrow achievement gaps before providing the NCLB waiver.

Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile will be used for federal accountability for Title I schools under the state's approved federal No Child Left Behind waiver, the new teacher and principal evaluation system that was signed into law in 2012 and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.

CORE, along with a majority of states, has been operating under a federal waiver program that offered relief from the demands of NCLB in exchange for a number of conditions — one of them was to create new systems for student achievement and school accountability.

The CORE team found failures in the No Child Left Behind model; districts adopting the new assessment tools received a federal waiver from some of its requirements last year.

The federal Education Department has already received waiver requests from 11 states, and one of the conditions for getting a waiver is developing a new accountability plan.

So for example if we roll back the new school accountability system, we have to change the waiver that we received from the federal government from the No Child Left Behind provisions, which is not going to be a minor, easy feat.

In addition to Indiana's waiver, federal education officials approved applications from Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

That's why Duncan announced in June that he was giving the 37 states plus the District of Columbia, which had won federal waivers from the most egregious mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, an extra year to implement teacher evaluations linked to new assessments that are supposed to be aligned to the new Common Core State Standards.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.

They observed that the new federal law eliminated all waivers as of August 1, 2016 and called upon the state of California not to grant a state waiver to the CORE.

New Labels to Indicate School Performance: A to F. All waiver states had to identify low - performing schools as «priority» or «focus» schools for federal accountability purposes, but these federal distinctions didn't have to translate to state school ratings systems.

TIME.com — As a new school year begins, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan plans to use waivers to rewrite parts of the nation's signature federal education law, whose reauthorization has been stalled in Congress.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.

Ever since the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Stephen G. Johnson, denied California's request for a waiver allowing it to put new controls on greenhouse - gas emissions from cars and light trucks, the agency has repeatedly claimed that its new federal standard is more aggressive than California's plan.

Because the only statewide clean air laws that already existed were in California, and they were more stringent than the new federal legislation, the federal act gave waiver authority to California, allowing it to adopt tougher standards than those set nationally.

With the advent of new California programs such as the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (a comprehensive investment program to stimulate the development and deployment of low - carbon fuels and advanced vehicle technologies), the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and a federal waiver allowing California to set its own carbon dioxide motor vehicle emission standards, California is well positioned to develop a system of sustainable, clean, alternative transportation fuels.