Sentences with phrase «states additional flexibility»

«It also gives states additional flexibility.

Chris Minnich, executive director, Council of Chief State School Officers: «Congress must reauthorize ESEA this year to create a long - term, stable federal policy that gives states additional flexibility and encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time holding us accountable for results.»

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) creates a long - term stable federal policy that gives states additional flexibility and encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time holding us accountable for results.

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This change would largely affect only the Empire State and it should also be given additional program flexibility to reform its program and absorb local costs over a five - year period.

In a letter Tuesday to every member of Michigan's congressional delegation, Gov. Rick Snyder (R) warned that the House GOP bill «shifts significant financial risk and cost from the federal government to states without providing sufficient flexibility to manage this additional responsibility.»

If this path of breakthrough is selected, the system evolves to a state in which it has a processing capacity of intensified information and more efficient use of free energy as well as more flexibility, greater structural complexity and additional levels of organization».

The Department of Education announced last week another in a series of policy changes designed to give states and school districts additional flexibility in meeting requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act.

First, the regulations codify additional flexibilities that ESSA alone does not provide to states.

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of the 2016 Appropriation Act states, «To provide additional flexibility, notwithstanding the provisions of § 22.1 - 79.1, Code of Virginia, any school division that was granted a waiver regarding the opening date of the school year for the 2011 - 12 school year under the good cause requirements shall continue to be granted a waiver for the 2016 - 17 school year and the 2017 - 2018 school year.»

This additional flexibility at the district level would encourage comprehensive and coordinated planning and reduce the compliance burden associated with all of the specific federal funding streams, while the state commitment to progressive funding would ensure that additional resources continue to be directed to the schools and students with the greatest need.

This doesn't change any of the basic requirements in the ESSA law itself; it just returns additional flexibility to states in interpreting the law.

Flexibility, however, enables states to use these funds to expand the school day or year to provide more time for student learning — a powerful intervention when students use the additional time for high - quality activities.

The bill provides states and districts with greater flexibility while still preserving a national focus on closing the achievement gap and ensuring that additional services and supports are provided to the students and schools most in need.

School district leaders say a GOP - authored budget mandate that schools trim class sizes in grades K - 3 beginning with the 2017 - 2018 academic year will have major consequences in North Carolina public school districts without additional state funding or staffing flexibility for district leaders.

The letter commends the committee for providing states with the flexibility to use additional indicators of student proficiency in H.R. 5, its ESEA reauthorization bill, but asks to add language to the bill that will take into account the broad array of measures beyond standardized test scores.

Shortly after the Obama administration announced that it's providing NCLB waivers to all 11 states that have applied for such flexibility to date, 26 additional states and the District of Columbia submitted their own waiver applications in the second round of requests.

Although this additional flexibility may help certain «high - risk» states retain their waivers, Washington state, which recently lost its waiver, and other states with laws that do not conform to the department's requirements for teacher evaluation will not benefit.

States should include in these tiered systems multiple levels of additional funding, supports, and flexibility based on school and district need.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

The standards will help individual states to reduce their smog and soot levels, prevent bad air days and improve public health and they include some flexibility for small businesses including «additional lead time for compliance.»

However, to provide additional flexibility for creditors to use the Loan Estimate for preapprovals where the property address is unknown, the Bureau is revising comment 37 (a)(6)-1 to state that while the disclosure of a zip code is required in all instances, the creditor may disclose multiple zip codes if the consumer is investigating home purchase opportunities in multiple zip codes.