Sentences with phrase «offered waivers from the law»

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.

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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.