In 2011, the White House announced it would
offer waivers from the law, but states that want them must agree to fulfill other requirements to evaluate teachers and schools.
The Obama administration
offered waivers from the law's requirement that states steadily increase the number of students graded proficient on standardized exams to 37 states that agreed to other accountability measures, including new evaluations for teachers and principals.
Not exact matches
So that year, the Obama administration
offered states a reprieve
from many of the
law's mandates through a series of
waivers.
Officials at the Indiana Department of Education welcomed the Obama administration's plan to
offer states
waivers from key portions of the 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.
The Obama administration
offered Indiana and ten other states
waivers from the No Child Left Behind
law on a key condition: state education officials had to find a better way to close the socio - economic achievement gap.
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.