Sentences with phrase «states waivers from the law»

The Department of Defense denied the state a waiver from the law earlier this month.

The Obama administration began granting states waivers from the law in September 2011.

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Reuters has reported the draft would assert that a 1975 law bars California from imposing its own state emissions rules, as it has long done nonetheless under a series of Clean Air Act waivers.

The email comes as party leaders from across the state and the political spectrum question or outright oppose ending the law, which allows members of one political party a waiver to run on another ballot line.

State law prohibits most government employees from taking both a full salary and a public pension without a special waiver.

According to the state Retirement and Social Security Law, which was last amended in 2008, in order to receive approval for a section 211 waiver from the state's three - member Civil Service commission, a jurisdiction must demonstrate «an urgent need for his or her services» because of «an unplanned, unpredictable, unexpected vacancy and sufficient time is not available to recruit a qualified individual.»

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

The state had asked for — and up until this point received — the waiver from the 2008 law each year since its approval.

Under state law, individuals convicted of a felony must get a waiver from the courts, known as a «certificate of good conduct,» to run for public office.

The governor said he was compelled to veto the bill for several reasons: That state law prohibited him from signing the bill, that it would prompt other cities to clamor for a waiver on their fees, that such a change might be better suited during the annual budget process, and that bondholders might be put at risk due to revenues lost by waiving the fees.

Earlier this year, the Freelancers persuaded the state Legislature and Gov. Cuomo to approve a law granting the group a waiver from enrolling in the new national health - insurance program.

Under state law, the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent or obtain a waiver from the state.

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Under state law, any former state or local government worker under age 65 who receives a state pension must obtain a «211 waiver» from the state Civil Service Department to return to public payroll unless they earn less than $ 30,000 a year.

Notably, California and 11 other states had been seeking waivers from the EPA permitting them to pass laws requiring reduced car emissions of greenhouse gases from the 2009 model year onward.

Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act remains stalled in Congress, but the Obama administration continues to push ahead with big changes to the accountability system at its core, with more than half the states now having been approved for waivers from major mandates of the law.

The waivers, which are now in place in 42 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, allow states to get out from under many of the mandates of the NCLB law in exchange for embracing certain education redesign priorities.

So that year, the Obama administration offered states a reprieve from many of the law's mandates through a series of waivers.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

Rather than press Congress to pass a law to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the Obama administration used federal stimulus money to encourage states to accept its policy preferences and waivers from NCLB's penalties to ensure those policies were implemented.

He established a waiver process that effectively allowed two - thirds of the states to deviate from various requirements of the law — most prominently the requirement that all students be proficient in math and reading by the end of this year.

Eventually, 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were granted waivers from NCLB, in effect gutting the federal law.

Yes, under NCLB's waiver authority, the Secretary has a lot of room to maneuver in terms of letting states and districts escape from onerous parts of the law.

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

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.

Duncan on Tuesday announced that schools that do the field test for the new Common Core assessment next spring can get a one - year waiver from also giving current state standardized tests required by federal law.

In 2011, the White House announced it would offer waivers from the law, but states that want them must agree to fulfill other requirements to evaluate teachers and schools.

Increased state flexibility and experimentation with federal guidance under waivers from federal law, shifting to even greater state control of accountability systems design under the Every Student Succeeds Act

And waivers from the No Child Left Behind law have allowed states to «unlawfully» waive accountability requirements in exchange for adopting the Common Core.

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Louisiana received more than $ 17 million through Race to the Top, and it has a waiver from No Child Left Behind, allowing the state to avoid some of the more onerous provisions of the law.

Washington is the first state to lose its waiver from the law.

State officials received a waiver from the federal government releasing Indiana from the controversial mechanisms of the No Child Left Behind law, replacing them with the A-F ratings.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

This left districts with a choice: delay the issuing of report cards until the scores are available «sometime this month» OR seek a waiver from state law mandating that TCAP scores count toward a student's final grade.

Officials at the Indiana Department of Education welcomed the Obama administration's plan to offer states waivers from key portions of the No Child Left Behind law.

Last September, he all but required adoption of the Common Core or similar standards approved by state higher education officials if states want to receive federal waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.

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.

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of EducaState officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Educastate filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of EducaState Board of Education.

Not only is it state law, but it's required if Indiana wants to keep a federal waiver releasing it from strict accountability rules under No Child Left Behind.

The federal government, as a condition for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, is requiring that states adopt a minimum of three performance levels, such as «meets expectations, doesn't meet expectations, and needs improvement.»

Such reliance remains even though the Obama administration has granted waivers to 43 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico from many NCLB's mandates, including the law's central accountability provision.

The waivers freed the states from some of the law's toughest requirements, including that schools prepare every student to be proficient in math and reading by 2014 or risk escalating sanctions.

To date, 32 states have won permission to depart from the law, five are waiting to hear and 13 have not sought waivers.

Minnesota is one of many states that has been granted waivers from the law.

Last year, Washington became the first state to lose its waiver from some of the strictest requirements of that law, known as the No Child Left Behind Act, because lawmakers here refused to require school districts to use student test scores as part of evaluating teacher effectiveness.

In September, California Gov. Jerry Brown resisted Duncan's threat to withhold $ 7.3 billion in federal funding if he signed into law Assembly Bill 484, which effectively eviscerates accountability (and gets around the administration's decision to not grant the Golden State a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized tState a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized tstate's standardized tests.

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.

Wisconsin receives waiver from federal No Child Left Behind law, ending an era in which schools and districts were penalized for not meeting «adequate yearly progress» on state tests.

Another eight states received waivers from federal education requirements under the No Child Left Behind law.