Sentences with phrase «states awarded waivers»

That issue has become important to states awarded waivers from the U.S. Department of Education from NCLB requirements.

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And Kremer points out that although the Regents developed the waiver option, they were unable to rescind the provision that says if schools don't meet the November 15th deadline, they have to give back some state aid awarded to them in the budget back in the spring.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has made awarding waivers from certain onerous provisions of the No Child Left Behind law contingent on states evaluating teachers in a manner he judges acceptable.

Since awarding more than 40 NCLB waivers, this marks the first time the department has ever labeled states» escape from some onerous components of the law as being in trouble.

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.

The Obama administration has awarded waivers in order to free states and the District from punitive aspects of the federal law, which was supposed to be rewritten by Congress four years ago and is increasingly seen as outdated and unworkable.

The best indicator of the imperfections of NCLB is the large number of states that the federal government has awarded waivers from NCLB requirements in exchange for planning and pursuing new policies, such as enhanced teacher evaluation systems.

The U.S. Department of Education has just awarded Alaska, Hawaii, and West Virginia NCLB waivers, bringing the total number of waiver states to 37.

In an interesting development, ASCD has learned that the department is considering a waiver option for districts in those states that are not awarded nor seek a state waiver.

States can go beyond offering waivers by enacting policies that provide broader default permission for high schools to operate in different ways, particularly when it comes to awarding credit toward graduation.17

This led the federal government to award those California outliers a waiver from No Child Left Behind, a move opposed by Torlakson and the state teachers unions.

The parties also irrevocably waive their rights to any form of appeal, review or recourse to any State court or other judicial authority with respect to such Award insofar as such waiver may be validly made.»