Eleven
states applied for waivers last fall.
Many
states applied for waivers, for example, to guarantee «a unified accountability system.»
After
states applied for waivers, their plans were read by peer reviewers, and the administration suggested changes.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
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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.&r
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.&r
state 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.