Sentences with phrase «received federal waivers»

States that received federal waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act were required to implement reforms in designated «Focus Schools» that contribute to achievement gaps.

As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work.

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.

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.

As for ESEA flexibility waivers, a condition of receiving a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind was that states have in place «college - and career - ready standards.»

Last September, he all but required adoption of the Common Core or similar standards approved by state higher education officials if states want to receive federal waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.

Former superintendent John Deasy, who resigned on Oct. 16 amid controversy over billion - dollar technology blunders, had declared a ban on the law this past August, claiming the law didn't apply to Los Angeles Unified because the district had received a federal waiver exempting it from No Child Left Behind improvement goals in the temporary absence of statewide tests.

The CORE team found failures in the No Child Left Behind model; districts adopting the new assessment tools received a federal waiver from some of its requirements last year.

For weeks, administration officials have been meeting with car companies as well as green groups and representatives from California — which is awaiting word on whether it will receive a federal waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles — to try to broker a deal on the issue.

Not exact matches

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 waiver would allow the county airport to receive an additional $ 1.9 million in federal funding.

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 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.

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.

It is true that Texas, Alaska, and Virginia have called the department's bluff, opting not to embrace the standards and receiving waivers regardless, but that does not prove that the federal government was not attempting to promote these standards.

The federal Department of Education specified for the first time Tuesday what states would have to do to receive a waiver from giving state standardized tests next spring in the one - year transition to implementing the Common Core standards.

State officials received a waiver from the federal government releasing Indiana from the controversial mechanisms of the No Child Left Behind law, replacing them with the A-F ratings.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

That threat is not based on any legal language in NCLB or in waivers states have received to avoid sanctions under the federal law.

After months of negotiations, seven California school districts have received a one - year extension of the waivers from the federal government exempting them from key provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in return for meeting a slew of new requirements.

Jindal names the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the suit, which argues that states are forced to cede their «sovereign authority over education policy to the federal government» to receive federal grants and police waivers linked to adoption of the standards.

This occurred at the federal level, as we all likely know, primarily via Race to the Top and the No Child Left Behind Waivers essentially forced upon states when states had to adopt VAMs (or growth models) to also reform their teachers, and subsequently their schools, in order to continue to receive the federal funds upon which all states still rely.

He and Commissioner of Education Christopher Cerf — who was appointed by Mr. Christie in 2011 and confirmed by the state Senate last year — also received approval for a waiver of provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Another five states will receive waivers from federal education mandates under No Child Left Behind, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, bringing the total number of waiver states to 24.

The efforts of the group are likely to be included in an application the state may make to receive a waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements for next year, which punish schools unable to meet rising national performance benchmarks.

Wisconsin receives waiver from federal No Child Left Behind law, ending an era in which schools and districts were penalized for not meeting «adequate yearly progress» on state tests.

Another eight states received waivers from federal education requirements under the No Child Left Behind law.

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

Places that agree to make changes can receive waivers from the law's requirements — and ensure that the federal funds upon which many depend, including Title I, will continue to flow.

If approved, the California Office to Reform Education (CORE) Waiver would clear the way for LA Unified to receive $ 171 million in federal funding.

TCTA's letter pointed to a Congressional Research Service report listing disaster - related federal waivers granted during 2005 - 2009, including two accountability waivers received by Texas in 2006, the same year that the then - commissioner issued «Not Rated» ratings to hurricane - impacted schools / districts.

In the letter, the groups also say Wisconsin received about $ 23 million in federal money to implement Common Core in exchange for receiving a waiver for failing to meet standards under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Simultaneously, TCTA contacted Sen. John Cornyn's office to let them know of the precedent for Texas receiving federal accountability waivers and the urgency of seeking one given real concerns about whether student test results from hurricane - impacted districts / schools would be accurate.

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.

Now, with the information that there is precedent for Texas receiving a federal accountability waiver, and pressure from state leaders, TCTA and others, Morath plans to take the next step and apply for a waiver.

Alabama has received a waiver from portions of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which requires the state to include growth in student achievement as a significant factor in the evaluation framework, as well as a multitiered rating system.

Independent charters are not included in the California Office of Reform Education (CORE)'s statistics, because CORE's system was developed as part of a waiver its districts received from the federal government relieving them of some of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.

April 30, 2015 10 Districts in California (representing over a million students) have received a waiver from the federal government so that they can measure student success holistically and not just by test scores, but by using assessment tools that include SEL indicators.

Connecticut received a waiver from the Federal Department of Education requirement that standardized testing data be used in evaluations during the 2015 - 16 school year.

The federal Education Department has already received waiver requests from 11 states, and one of the conditions for getting a waiver is developing a new accountability plan.

So for example if we roll back the new school accountability system, we have to change the waiver that we received from the federal government from the No Child Left Behind provisions, which is not going to be a minor, easy feat.

And yet just the other day, Governor Malloy, Commissioner Pryor and the Connecticut State Board of Education were talking about changes and flexibility associated with Connecticut's absurd teacher evaluation system, but there was virtually no mention that the federal waiver Malloy, Pryor and the state requested and received puts severe limitations on just how much «flexibility» Connecticut has in some of these areas.

RECLAMATION While reclamation efforts are required by federal law, coal companies often receive waivers from state agencies with the idea that economic development will occur on the newly flattened land.

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