Sentences with phrase «offering states flexibility»

Additionally, the Department of Education is offering states flexibility to avoid «double testing» students next year when state assessments will be administered along with the field tests of PARCC and Smarter Balanced's next - generation assessments, which are in the final stages of development.

President Obama is offering states flexibility from NCLB in exchange for comprehensive plans to raise standards; to create fair, flexible and focused accountability systems; and to improve systems for teacher and principal evaluation and support.

Fall 2011 — President Barack Obama offers states flexibility from key mandates of the NCLB law, in exchange for embracing his education redesign priorities.

Recognizing that schools couldn't continue to operate under NCLB's significant flaws, the Obama administration has offered states flexibility from the law's most onerous provisions in exchange for specific reform commitments focused on college and career readiness, improvements in the lowest - performing schools, and teacher effectiveness.

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Since 2003, we have earned the Texas 10 Step Program Award from the Department of State Health Services and the Texas Hospital Association for our support of breastfeeding mothers, and we are recognized as a Texas Mother - Friendly Worksite for offering flexibility and accessibility for our breastfeeding employees.

The arrangement offers flexibility that has enabled state officials to quickly develop regional technology hubs, like the one COR built in DeWitt, by partnering with private companies.

But while the move may offer more flexibility by transferring funds without the OK from lawmakers, other state officials say it brings down openness in government.

To retain West Virginia's role as an electricity exporter to other states, to limit job losses and to keep power prices low for customers, the state should «maximize whatever flexibility is offered under the Clean Power Plan,» stated comments from Commerce Department Secretary J. Keith Burdette, who works under the governor.

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ESSA offers much flexibility to states, but when faced with nebulous statutory language, state attorneys and program managers aren't necessarily inclined to sign off on bold new uses of the money that comes from Washington.

April 2005 - U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who had helped shepherd the NCLB law through Congress as a top domestic policy advisor in the White House, announces plans to offer states limited flexibility from parts of the law if they could prove they were moving the needle on student achievement.

Along with other major changes to state - funded education, the new legislation gave public schools more flexibility in offering single - sex programs.

The legislature passed several school - related resolutions, including one urging the state department of education to implement a pilot project that could offer more flexibility to a group schools in Hawaii's statewide school district.

He surely has the right to offer greater flexibility to the states when it comes to the law's «adequate yearly progress» measures and other parts of its accountability system.

Flexibility is also necessary because international schools do not have the same support services United States» schools offer.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

The variety of approaches will help inform Congress when it resumes debate over reauthorizing the NCLB law in 2009, and help it address complaints that the current law doesn't offer enough flexibility to decide what actions states and districts may take in addressing individual schools» needs.

For years, states have been demanding the kind of flexibility offered today.

Yet Congress leaves it to the states to define what those mean, and Duncan acknowledged that the added flexibility offers «both the greatest opportunity and the greatest risk.»

The greater flexibility afforded to charter schools offers opportunity to develop innovative approaches to providing ELs, one of the fastest growing demographic groups among students in the United States, with a quality education.

As states reach important milestones on the way toward building internationally competitive education systems, the federal government should offer a range of tiered incentives to make the next stage of the journey easier, including increased flexibility in the use of federal funds and in meeting federal educational requirements and providing more resources to implement world - class educational best practices.

Support this effort through a range of tiered incentives, such as providing states with greater flexibility in the use of existing federal funds, supporting a revised state accountability structure, and offering financial support for states to implement the standards.

Today, some New Hampshire school systems have embraced the flexibility that the state policy offers, whereas others remain tied to time - based practices.

The ESEA - reauthorization bill released by Senate HELP committee Chairman Tom Harkin this week is advertised as getting «the federal government out of the business of «micromanaging» schools»» and offering states significant «flexibility.»

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

With the steadily decreasing per pupil rates and the extreme uncertainty of the state budget, we must take advantage of any relief we can including the small amount of flexibility offered by the waiver process,» said Franci Sassin, business manager at Capistrano Connections Academy Charter School.

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

Wisconsin, which placed 26th in round one, got more buy - in from districts and their teachers» unions by offering districts more grant money for signing on and for giving them the flexibility to determine the scope and breadth of the changes they will implement, said state schools Superintendent Tony Evers.

The National Education Association launched their ESSA - focused website, aimed to help states «understand the opportunities presented under ESSA and how to take advantage of the flexibility the law offers.»

The law's requirements allow long - term planning while offering states and districts an appropriate amount of flexibility to establish their own definitions of student success and methods to achieve them.

The Idaho Digital Learning Academy was authorized by state statute in 2002 to «provide choice, accessibility, flexibility, quality and equity in curricular offerings.»

The state does not limit the number of Horace Mann charter schools in each district, which allows the districts to offer the flexibility of the charter schools on a larger scale.

The regulations call for more detailed information to be gathered on how new teachers are performing, aim to provide better tracking of retention rates, offers more flexibility to states in how they measure the performance of preparation programs and require states to report annual ratings on their programs.

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.

Our curriculum did not align with state tests because we had the flexibility to offer an education that demanded even more of young minds.

Since the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) became law in 2015, states across the country have been using the flexibility and authority the law offers to design plans that ensure a quality education for all kids.

To keep as many students under one roof as possible, Mobile Modular introduced the CampusMaker ModPod ®; a state - of - the - art, eco-friendly modular classroom complex offering unparalleled flexibility and configurability.

Title II of ESSA provides $ 2.5 billion to states and districts for professional learning and offers flexibility in how they spend this money.

The department has allowed states to delay tying student growth to teacher personnel decisions until 2016 - 17, and it is offering targeted flexibility for some states that need extra time implementing their teacher evaluation systems.

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education offered flexibility waivers allowing states to opt out of NCLB.

The flexibility under ESSA offers states the unique opportunity to improve how they recruit, select, prepare and support educators, and to direct federal funding to those purposes.

The Education Department's decision to provide waivers from key provisions of or flexibility within the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — also known as No Child Left Behind — offers a further boost and a framework for states to make these long overdue reforms in a coherent way.

In particular, the report offers a set of «Lessons for Other States» that provide information on the need for flexibility and adaptability in a state funding system.

Research shows that local educators tend not to understand, know about, or accurately estimate how much flexibility current state laws and regulations already offer.

Sen. Alexander's bill offers an option whereby states would have complete flexibility when it comes to deciding when and how to measure student progress.