Sentences with phrase «states applied for a waiver»

Last week, 11 states applied for waivers from many of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's most onerous provisions.

She wonders if the Department of Education will withhold federal funding if these states apply for waivers but offer much less in the way of conforming principles than Secretary Duncan would like.

After states applied for waivers, their plans were read by peer reviewers, and the administration suggested changes.

Many states applied for waivers, for example, to guarantee «a unified accountability system.»

Eleven states applied for waivers last fall.

Previously 11 states applied for a waiver and were approved.

The state board could approve the department's proposal or recommend the state apply for the waivers.

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The order itself states that immigration of anyone who's a citizen of one of those 7 countries is suspended for 90 days, and that they could apply for a waiver to prove that their entry is in the national interest.

Meier authored a law requiring the United States Department of Health and Human Services to apply for a Federal Medicaid waiver to create a pilot program to offer less costly, more appropriate care to Medicaid patients in need of long - term care.

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.

The Cuomo administration had initially applied for a waiver from the Department of Justice to import out - of - state medical grade marijuana for the program, but state officials later acknowledged the waiver had been denied.

State law barred her from getting her pension and making more than $ 30,000 without applying for a waiver.

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.

The Medicaid Redesign Team's effort was inextricably linked to the state's decision to seek the Medicaid waiver, which it first applied for in August of 2011.

As Capital has previously reported, health care industry stakeholders agreed to the cuts proposed by the Medicaid design team on the understanding that the state would later apply for the waiver funding, helping return some of the money the hospitals would lose in the short term.

Nelson, along with U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and 10 other Democratic members of Florida's congressional delegation sent a letter to CMS Director Seema Verma urging her to reject a proposed amendment to a state Medicaid «waiver» that would exempt Florida from a federal requirement that gives people up to 90 days following a health problem to apply for Medicaid coverage.

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.

«There are many working families just outside of the waiver eligibility for whom the fee is still a barrier to applying,» Rosado stated.

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.

Federal money from a Medicaid waiver: After they enacted a number of changes designed to bend the long - term cost curve of the state - federal Medicaid program, New York officials applied for a federal waiver that would let the state invest $ 10 billion of $ 17 billion in savings over the next five years.

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.

Other critics claimed we were «mandating» that states adopt these policies, but states always had an option of whether or not to pursue grant funding or NCLB waivers (five states chose not to apply for a waiver, and others did so only after watching many other states earn approval).

Three cheers for California's governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind) that doesn't kowtow to Washington.

Second, Duncan and Barnes said they'd be allowing states to apply for waivers in return for pledging fealty to elements of the administration's NCLB «blueprint.»

It is limited to the granting of waivers for which states must apply.

Most states have applied for a waiver.

Three cheers for California's governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from NCLB that doesn't kowtow to Washington.

One of the four states, Virginia, applied for a waiver without adopting Common Core and is in negotiations with the administration over its plan.

So U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has offered to give out waivers to exempt states from meeting NCLB's accountability standards — and Indiana's going to apply for one.

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.

Torlakson also said California is applying for a «double testing» waiver from the federal government, which would allow students to avoid taking both the field test and a separate end - of - year state test.

Two states have had their waivers revoked and seven didn't apply for one.

New Hampshire, the first state in the nation to move toward awarding credit for competency rather than seat time, is planning to submit a plan for what it calls Accountability 3.0 when it applies for renewal of its federal waiver this summer.

An additional 28 states, including Virginia and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia, have indicated that they intend to apply this month for a second round of waivers.

Once fully built, the consortium seeks to request of the state department of education to apply for a federal waiver to enable the consortium to adopt the MCIEA model and be exempt from state testing except in «dipstick» grades.

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.

Two years later, the administration gave states the opportunity to apply for waivers that exempted them from a federal requirement under No Child Left Behind that 100 percent of American students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.

President Obama outlined his criteria for states hoping to apply for waivers from some of No Child Left Behind's tougher provisions.

That being not enough, he then decreed that states could apply for flexibility waivers to get out of the terrible mandates of NCLB as long as they agreed to the terrible mandates of Arne Duncan: to adopt the Common Core state standards, the common core national tests, link teacher and principal evaluations to standardized test scores, and, instead of all students being «proficient» by 2014, assure that all students will be «college ready» by 2020.

Under the process administration officials described on Thursday, some states that apply for waivers this fall could be reviewed by the Education Department early next year, perhaps in time to make changes before they administer spring testing.

State officials applied for a waiver under a different section of the law that they claimed gave Duncan authority to grant permission.

Two unknowns lurk: Duncan hasn't yet agreed to consider district waivers in states that either didn't apply for them or had their applications turned down, and CORE hasn't yet formally asked Brown for his blessing, which would considerably help their case.

But the law expired in 2007 without congressional reauthorization, and the Obama administration has encouraged states to apply for waivers that allow them to avoid AYP penalties and the 2014 goal in exchange for adopting policies favored by the Obama Department of Education, such as tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has indicated states may be able to apply this fall for waivers from the law's requirements if they develop their own accountability systems.

Some of the support can be ascribed to the fact that both Brown and the State Board of Education did not succumb to pressures from both the Obama administration and advocacy organizations to apply for waivers from the No Child Left Behind that would have required the state to link teacher evaluations to student test scores or other measures of «student academic growth.&rState Board of Education did not succumb to pressures from both the Obama administration and advocacy organizations to apply for waivers from the No Child Left Behind that would have required the state to link teacher evaluations to student test scores or other measures of «student academic growth.&rstate to link teacher evaluations to student test scores or other measures of «student academic growth.»

Twenty - six states plus the District of Columbia applied for the next round of waivers.