Sentences with phrase «public education waiver»

In September 2011, President Obama announced ESEA Flexibility, a new public education waiver plan to grant state education agencies increased flexibility in meeting NCLB requirements.

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On the Island, for example, 120 out of 124 public school districts obtained a time - extension waiver from the State Education Department.

NYS Education Commissioner David Steiner's judgment and his own personal integrity are at issue here, as well as the independence and disinterestedness of the panel he has named to advise him on whether to grant the waiver to unqualified Cathleen Black, which she needs in order to assume the post of NYC Public Schools Chancellor.

CORE and its member districts have partnered with TransformEd to assist member districts to fulfill public reporting obligations under its federally - approved waiver from No Child Left Behind school accountability provisions (NCLB waiver), approved by the US Department of Education (USDOE) on August 6th, 2013.

Governor Hogan's original executive order — which the attorney general's office said he may not have had the authority to issue in the first place — established such limits, creating an unbroken summer break for Maryland public schools from June 15 to Labor Day, but also allowing the State Board of Education (to which the Governor appointed me and — so far — eight other members) to issue waivers to districts that present «compelling justification» for exceeding those limits.

Since some Oklahoma children have already started the school year, the Education Department will phase in some of the consequences of No Child Left Behind that Oklahoma had escaped under the waiver: The state must provide tutoring services and public school choice options no later than the 2015 - 16 school year.

This document contains a brief, tailored overview of The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- the 114th Congress's effort to update the antiquated NCLB — for school board members with key information (e.g., effective date of existing waiver terminations) about how Congress has overhauled the law in favor of restoring local governance and community leadership in public education.

• Deferred a decision on whether to seek an extension to Utah's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver while watching events both in Washington, where the act is now up for renewal, and in Salt Lake City, where the Legislature is preparing its annual budget for public eEducation Act (ESEA) waiver while watching events both in Washington, where the act is now up for renewal, and in Salt Lake City, where the Legislature is preparing its annual budget for public educationeducation.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

Without the waivers, the accountability grades would create a fairly discouraging picture of public education in Mississippi.

The Obama administration's implicit support for states enacting Common Core, embedded through both Race to the Top and the No Child waiver gambit, is only the most - recent step in moving away from the patchwork of standards and curricula (often developed by teachers on their own in slapdash fashion) that has dominated American public education for most of the past two centuries.

«If Congress does not act now,» he said, «our inaction will transform the U.S. secretary of education into a waiver - granting czar over an unworkable law that has identified what he says may be as many as 80,000 «failing» public schools.»

When the Obama administration rejected California's first application for a waiver in 2012, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said, «It is disappointing that our state's request — which enjoyed such strong support from parents, teachers, administrators, and education advocates across California — has been rejected.»

TCTA sent the letter after testifying for accountability relief at a Nov. 14 interim hearing of the House Public Education Committee, during which the ability to / precedent for receiving federal accountability waivers was questioned by Morath.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

Subject: Request by 10 school districts for a waiver of Section 131 (c)(1) of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (Public Law 109 - 270).

At a time when we are working hard in California to implement positive changes that safeguard the quality public education all students deserve, this top - down waiver system which excludes teacher input and collaboration is counterproductive and divisive.

The Kentucky Department of Education is seeking public comment on its request for a waiver to use carryover federal funds rather than returning them to the federal government.

More importantly, Carey fails to thoughtfully analyze how the Obama administration's waiver gambit will impede the very efforts to transform American public education championed by his centrist Democrat and conservative reform colleagues as well as himself.

The Department of Public Instruction released a draft application to the U.S. Education Department for a waiver from the 10 - year - old federal No Child Left Behind Act, which State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers said «has shackled schools by being overly prescriptive and prohibiting creative reforms.»

Licensure requirements for counselors in Maryland, including those relating to education, supervision, examination, fees, renewal, and «licensure by waiver,» are examined in further detail below, along with salary information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as well as public and private scholarships available to aspiring LCPCs in the state.