Sentences with phrase «of federal waivers»

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.

To get one of the federal waivers, states had to submit plans that included adopting curriculum standards geared toward college and career readiness, developing teacher evaluation systems that incorporated student testing data and tracking and narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students.

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.

LAUSD Supt. John Deasy says California's law allowing 50 % of parents to force changes at struggling schools won't apply to the district this year because of a federal waiver.

Not exact matches

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

Apparently the majority of districts in North Carolina are planning to seek the waiver, in part because the current federal standard messes with a regional favorite: the white - flour buttermilk biscuit.

Meier authored a law requiring the United States Department of Health and Human Services to apply for a Federal Medicaid waiver to create a pilot program to offer less costly, more appropriate care to Medicaid patients in need of long - term care.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Pennsylvania's Republican - controlled House of Representatives is advancing legislation that would stop the state from getting waivers that allow food stamp recipients to continue receiving the federal benefit if they don't meet a work requirement.

The Cuomo administration has sent two letters to the Justice Department, asking federal officials for a waiver in order to import out - of - state marijuana for seriously ill children.

In December 2013, the Cuomo administration removed $ 2 billion from its $ 10 billion waiver application with the federal government, which would allow the state to reinvest a portion of its savings.

And although the original NCLB waiver doesn't expire until August, a state Education Department official said federal education officials have given states guidance essentially saying they won't be held accountable for parts of the law that are sunsetting.

In March, the NYS Education Department requested a waiver from the federal law, allowing for developmentally appropriate testing standards for child with serious disabilities, and a second year of prep time for English Language Learners for children just starting to learn English.

That came after the state received a waiver in 2010 that allowed it to keep the federal primary in September despite the 2009 passage of the federal MOVE Act requiring states to provide absentee ballots to military and overseas voters no later than 45 days before a federal general election.

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 returned to state government the following year after he was rehired by the Health Department to oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal aid from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, millions of dollars of which went to the health care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently worked for.

ALBANY — Former deputy secretary of health Jim Introne is returning to the state Department of Health to help oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal money from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, possibly to health care organizations who are clients of the politically well - connected firm he recently worked for.

Nelson, along with U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and 10 other Democratic members of Florida's congressional delegation sent a letter to CMS Director Seema Verma urging her to reject a proposed amendment to a state Medicaid «waiver» that would exempt Florida from a federal requirement that gives people up to 90 days following a health problem to apply for Medicaid coverage.

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.

If Section 8 vouchers are applied, the city would require a waiver from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to allocate units to current NYCHA residents.

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.

«Of course there's risks,» Fuleihan said, acknowledging that the city would have to work with federal and state authorities for reimbursements for health care costs and possible Medicaid waivers.

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.

The only way to change the Medicaid reimbursement rate is through Congress, and if that does not happen, an administrative waiver that brings back federal dollars to reduce the costs of care takes on even greater importance because the island will need to find a way to stretch the dollars it does receive, and reduce the overall expense of the program.

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.

Two out of three U.S. states overhauled teacher evaluations between 2009 and 2015, supported by federal incentives such as Race to the Top and Teacher Incentive Fund grants, as well as No Child Left Behind Act waivers.

Stop federal involvement in the Common Core: Through Race to the Top and ESEA waivers, Secretary of Education Duncan has worked assiduously to encourage states to adopt the Common Core and its associated tests.

The Department of Education's decision to link federal funding to the Core in its Race to the Top program, its NCLB waiver effort, and its «ESEA blueprint,» and the provision of $ 350 million in federal funds for Core - related tests, all alienated anti-Washington conservatives who would have remained neutral if the question had merely concerned states collaborating to set standards in math and English language arts.

While recognizing that waiver provisions in federal law have repeatedly been upheld in court, Derthick cautions, «waivers threaten to get out of hand, and to undermine the rule of law.»

The online program needed the waiver, the first of its kind, so its students would be eligible to apply for federal Pell Grants: that's because CFA doesn't use credit hours, or even traditional college «courses.»

She wonders if the Department of Education will withhold federal funding if these states apply for waivers but offer much less in the way of conforming principles than Secretary Duncan would like.

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

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.

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.

The interesting — and paradoxical — upshot here is that the greatest hope for the continuation of an active federal government in K — 12 schooling is highly able and highly responsible states: if states handle their ESEA waivers well, then there will be no need for ED to slap wrists and therefore no additional fuel for those claiming federal overreach.

However, the lead - up to the announcement of the waivers was unsettling to supporters of a strong federal role in school accountability.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

Eventually, 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were granted waivers from NCLB, in effect gutting the federal law.

But an initial reading of the department's guidance suggests it is sticking to these policies: «The Department will work with states that wish to amend (their federal) flexibility waiver... while still maintaining teacher and leader evaluation and support systems that include growth in student learning.»

Federal policy, through Race to the Top financial incentives and selective offers of waivers to NCLB requirements, is pushing this centralizing strategy forward.

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factor.

Because of Ohio's federal waiver, Buckeye State districts couldn't just move to evaluations based on teacher observations and the like.

Of course, the federal government clearly encouraged states to adopt the standards through its No Child Left Behind waiver program, but it did not require adoption (which is obvious insofar as several states did not adopt the standards).

It was not difficult for opponents to cast Common Core as a federal initiative, given 1) the Obama administration's use of RttT incentives (and later, waivers to NCLB requirements) to encourage states to adopt the standards and 2) the administration's funding of the consortia.

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.

Critics note, however, that the federal government has encouraged states to adopt the Common Core through the Race to the Top competitive grant program and a streamlined path to waivers from the provisions of No Child Left Behind.

Representatives of nine California districts did not head home from Washington on Friday, after two and a half days of intense discussions with federal officials, with the waiver from the No Child Left Behind law that they had been hoping for.

«As I consider Secretary Arne Duncan's decision, I can only conclude rescinding the waiver is a failure of federal policy, not of our public schools, students or teachers,» she said.

Following the introduction of Common Core, the Administration offered $ 4.35 billion in federal Race to the Top grant money, along with waivers from the onerous provisions of the widely derided No Child Left Behind Act.