Sentences with phrase «schools applied for a waiver»

As soon as the law was passed, four religious schools applied for a waiver and all four were approved to take on new voucher students despite their failing grades.

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The School Boards Association, however, is not as enthusiastic about the possibly of numerous schools applying for and receiving waivers.

The State Board of Regents voted to permit schools who find the deadline too tight to apply for a waiver for a one year delay.

Three quarters of school districts in New York State have applied for waivers from the new teacher evaluation rules set out by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in March.

Three - quarters of school districts in the state have applied for waivers from the new teacher evaluation rules set out by Gov.Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in March.

Three quarters of school districts in the state have applied for waivers from the new teacher evaluation rules set out by Governor Cuomo and the legislature in March.

While the conditional waivers are welcomed by many states — 41 have indicated their intent to apply for them — some analysts are questioning their legal status and effect on school accountability.

It does permit local school boards to apply to the Maryland State Board of Education for waivers on behalf of their district or individual schools, which the Board may grant for a single school year based on a «compelling justification.»

Columbia Teachers College professor Hank Levin recounts that when the California legislature allowed districts to apply for waivers if they could demonstrate that laws or rules were hampering school improvement, «Fewer than 100 [waivers] were made in the first year» in a state with more than 1,000 districts.

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

And, a majority of the states that have applied for ESEA waivers to opt - out of the current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) accountability system include school climate and / or prosocial education as part of their desired alternative accountability system.

River Glen Elementary School applied for and received a waiver to continue its two - way bilingual immersion program despite the anti-bilingual sentiment in the state.

Although Torlakson noted the waiver program in his letter to Duncan - saying the «conditional nature» poses a problem for California - it is unclear if the first - year head of California schools is applying for such a waiver.

Plainfield's waiver request would apply only to K - 5 students, who would get PE two times a week with a licensed physical education teacher for 35 minutes each day across the district's 17 elementary schools.

Education agencies are allowed to apply for waivers to hold them hamless from loss of attendance based on local control funding formula (LCFF) funding and instructional time penalties if such disasters as flood, fires or earthquakes result in school closure.

Earlier this week, a number of civil rights and school reform groups including Democrats for Education Reform (or DFER) sent a letter to United States Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan opposing the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver that LAUSD and eight other California school districts had applied for.

The Texas waiver request is of particular interest to education leaders and policy experts, not only because of the state's considerable student population, but also because Texas has suggested that it would apply for a waiver without agreeing to all of the college - and career - readiness, school improvement, and teacher effectiveness reforms that the department is requiring in exchange for flexibility on key components of the law.

Duncan said he would be open to other districts applying for waivers in the future but would not permit any of them to piggyback on the CORE waiver during this school year.

The state is expected to apply for a waiver from some of the stiffest strictures of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which could bring big changes to how the state tracks and supports its schools.

While it rolls back NCLB's absurd adequate yearly progress system just as it was about to self - destruct, the new guidelines require states that apply for waivers to identify up to 15 % of their schools with the lowest scores for unproven «turnaround» interventions, «charterization,» or closing.

Recognizing the potential for an explosion in standardized testing, parents, school board members and teachers implored the Malloy administration not to apply for the NCLB waiver until it assessed the impact on our children and the cost to taxpayers.

Texas has been under intense pressure from school district leaders and others to apply for a waiver, especially since it was announced on Aug. 8, 2012, that the number of Texas campuses that failed to meet AYP in 2012 doubled from the number that failed in 2011, to more than 4,000 campuses.

According to a message from the superintendent to school districts, the waiver applies only to those two days right now, and the districts will have to apply for the waiver.

The bill also provides that in implementing such a program, a school district may apply to the commissioner for a waiver from the following:

Automatic closure laws «identify a threshold of minimally - acceptable performance» for charter schools; schools falling below this threshold at the time of renewal, or that remain below this threshold for a set amount of time, are automatically closed.29 The National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waSchool Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waschool closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waivers.

This has caused class sizes to soar, tripling the number of districts that have applied for and received waivers, representing nearly 30 percent of all elementary schools in the state.

Sadly, although laws like the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, or AHERA, exist to regulate asbestos in public spaces like schools, agencies like the EPA are hamstrung to enforce laws due to budgeting and loopholes, allowing state agencies to apply for waivers when it comes to asbestos abatement.