Sentences with phrase «new waiver policy»

Part of the reason is because Indiana wasn't intervening in 15 percent of Title I schools before, says Hyslop, and had to do so to meet the requirements of the new waiver policy.

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Obama Administration's Conditional Waivers from No Child Left Behind Provisions Spark New Legal, Policy, and Constitutional Debate

Most new Hoover students start in bilingual classes, with parental waivers from California's English immersion policy.

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.

Passed in 2008, it invited proposals for creating innovation schools, which could request waivers to district policies, state statutes, and union contracts — including tenure for new teachers — if 60 percent of the teachers voted for the Innovation Plan.

A new paper by USC assistant professor (and Emerging Education Policy Scholar) Morgan Polikoff and his colleagues finds that many of the state accountability systems approved under the waivers continue to rely predominantly on proficiency rates instead of individual student progress over time.

(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.

The guidance acknowledges some critics» concerns about how waivers shortchange at - risk students, said Anne Hyslop, an education policy analyst at the New America Foundation.

Looking back again at your K - 12 policy decisions, you made two big bets through waivers and Race to the Top: Pushing states to adopt new teacher evaluations and standards.

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.

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.

Second, the new superintendent began to recognize other instances in which district policies were likely to conflict with Dewey's approach — such as requirements for districtwide professional development — and in some cases, offered the school waivers even before the principal requested them.

A handful of states have enacted legislation that allows regular public schools outside the charter sector to obtain innovation status, which provides a streamlined way to obtain a multi-year package of policy waivers necessary to implement innovative strategies and new school designs.20

The new policy states, «AVMA recognizes some animals might require a waiver from rabies vaccination because the vaccination poses an unacceptably high risk to the health of the individual animal, or a waiver might be necessary for research purposes.

Under SSA's new policy, they should now be able to receive a waiver, or forgiveness, of those overpayments even, in most cases, without having to formally apply for relief.

The new policy provides further instructions, which should result in a grant of a waiver on the ground that the individual is without fault for the overpayment and that collection would be against equity and good conscience, as was argued in the lawsuit and the Congressional letter.

This could be technology, like the negotiation platform, but it also can include things like our forms, our rules, a new policy on fee waivers, for example.

Providing yet more fodder for this blawg, the May issue of Corporate Counsel contains a short article entitled «Conflict Avoidance,» which discusses Citigroup's new policy on conflicts, which makes it difficult to impossible to get a waiver to sue the company.

«In our view, New Jersey's public policy favoring arbitration is not determinative of whether a specific class arbitration waiver is unenforceable.

If the base policy's premium or other riders» premiums change, the Waiver of Premium premiums will be applied to the new premium amounts.

If you are interested in including the waiver of premium rider in your new whole life insurance policy, you can obtain life insurance information, advice, and competing quotes from a qualified life insurance agent.

I recently read a New York Law Journal article that, prompted by the March 16, 2011 Eastern District of New York decision, American General Life Insurance Company v. Salamon, discussed how the principle of waiver can preserve a life insurance policy that the insurance company has attempted to cancel.

For Standard Life Provisions, the company offers Salary - based Benefit Schedules; Dependent Coverage; Waiver of Premium (in case employees become disabled and so that they can continue life insurance without any premium payments), Accelerated Death Benefits (for employees with a life expectancy of 12 months), Portability (for those who want to leave their employment), Conversion (for employees to convert term life insurance to a new policy), and Bereavement Counseling (for counseling services).