Sentences with phrase «time waiver from the state»

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Lee of Feeding Wisconsin says that his state took a release from the time - limit waiver in 2014 and, as a result, 120,000 ABAWDs lost their food stamp eligibility.

On the Island, for example, 120 out of 124 public school districts obtained a time - extension waiver from the State Education Department.

Such an argument fundamentally states that the Legislature — which will meet only a handful of times in the months of January and February 2012 — can resolve an impasse that beset it such that it had to seek a second waiver from DOD simply because the legislature could not agree on resolving the issue for the entire session of 2011.

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.»

A stated desire to increase the amount of time students spend in school should be compelling enough justification for a waiver from this misguided policy.

But for Core proponents, the timing couldn't be worse: Just as states began implementing the new standards, 40 states receiving No Child waivers are also launching new systems to evaluate teachers, which will incorporate some measures of student achievement, including, where available, scores from standardized tests.

By the time the 2012 elections moved into full swing, the Obama administration was issuing waivers to states exempting them from the most punitive parts of NCLB in exchange for sketching out their own state plans for improving teacher quality, academic standards and creating better accountability systems.

The federal Department of Education specified for the first time Tuesday what states would have to do to receive a waiver from giving state standardized tests next spring in the one - year transition to implementing the Common Core standards.

For example, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claims that states have «dummied down» their standards yet at the same time, his department is giving states waivers to provide «relief» from the unrealistically ambitious expectations of NCLB.

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.

Based on all the complaints from Washington State politicians and conservative Beltway school reformers such as Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute reported by Motoko Rich last Sunday in New York Times, you would think that the Obama Administration's leveled a great injustice by not renewing the waiver given to it two years ago to ignore the No Child Left Behind Act.

It's a process invoked by school districts across New Jersey only a few times each year, a request for a waiver from state regulations that gets into the minutia of school operations.

The release of the proposals got everyone talking for a time, but the Obama administration's waivers have relieved 39 states — including Indiana — from NCLB's most onerous burdens.

With no tangible sign from Congress that relief in the form of an updated law will come any time soon, states from Missouri to Wisconsin are lining up to request waivers from the U.S. Department of Education as a means of getting around the statutes of No Child Left Behind.

School districts submitted nearly 900 applications for waivers from various elements of the state's Education Code in 2011 with the California State Board of Education granting its approval 75 percent of the state's Education Code in 2011 with the California State Board of Education granting its approval 75 percent of the State Board of Education granting its approval 75 percent of the time.

In a letter from a district lawyer to former state Sen. Gloria Romero obtained by The Times on Thursday, officials said the school system is not subject to the «parent trigger» law because it obtained a waiver last year from federal educational requirements that are linked to it.

They can also seek a waiver from the state board to allow them time to phase out operations.