Sentences with phrase «to apply for a waiver»

But states would have to apply for a waiver from double testing students to do this.

Apply for a waiver of court fees if you can not afford to pay.

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

As soon as the law was passed, four religious schools applied for a waiver and all four were approved to take on new voucher students despite their failing grades.

Teachers in a few high - need areas (e.g. special education, math, and science) are eligible to apply for a waiver of the residency policy.

Previously 11 states applied for a waiver and were approved.

Duncan said he would be open to other districts applying for waivers in the future but would not permit any of them to piggyback on the CORE waiver during this school year.

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

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.

California districts applied for their waiver under their umbrella organization, the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), which led the application process.

Meanwhile, with three statesopenly defying NCLB's strictures and at least ten states preparing waiver requests, it looks like «states may have a mishmash of different accountability systems,» says Jennings, who expects «the vast majority of states» to apply for waivers by the time Duncan releases his regulations.

Los Angeles is one of nine districts in California applying for a waiver as a group; the waiver was amended last week to make it stronger and clearer, officials said.

A spokeswoman for NARAL Pro Choice New York, says the group has already applied for the waiver and received a letter from JCOPE confirming that it qualified for the exemption.

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

Sadly, although laws like the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, or AHERA, exist to regulate asbestos in public spaces like schools, agencies like the EPA are hamstrung to enforce laws due to budgeting and loopholes, allowing state agencies to apply for waivers when it comes to asbestos abatement.

California did not apply for a waiver from No Child Left Behind this year, but Sanger and seven other California school districts banded together and accepted one.

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.

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.

Most states will undoubtedly apply for waivers, but what if some just stop complying with NCLB and drag their feet on the waivers?

Currently the District offers Universal Prekindergarten and annually applies for a waiver to include a small number of 3 year old children in District classrooms only.

When Virginia applied for its waiver, the state did not have the results from tougher standardized tests that were administered in the 2011 - 12 school year.

Eleven states applied for waivers last fall.

Only a handful of states, probably including Georgia, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Colorado, would be ready to apply for the waivers right away, said Eugene Wilhoit, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which worked closely with the administration in preparing the waivers process.

This means just over a dozen states haven't yet applied for a waiver: Alabama, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

In the meantime, those states can apply to freeze their annual measureable objectives for a year, but only if they agree to either eventually apply for waivers or fully comply with NCLB.

Rather than applying for and accepting a waiver from some of the more onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in exchange for adopting a series of education reforms as 33 other states have done, Texas submitted a notice of intent to apply for a waiver via a different mechanism on the last day of the most recent application period, Sept. 13, 2012.

The only exceptions to the ban on development are when someone who applies for a waiver can demonstrate that they would have no beneficial use of their property without one — or that they are providing essential public health and safety that can only be supplied in the Pine Barrens core.

Chang points out that people applying for waivers may not always get them, especially because applicants must prove there would be «undue hardship» if they didn't travel to the U.S. «That language is new; it wasn't in the previous order,» says Chang.

In certain circumstances, an obligor may be exempt or eligible to apply for a waiver for accrued interest.

New Mexico's application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements has been approved, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday, meaning each of the 11 states that applied for waivers in November received them.

California similarly attempted to apply for a waiver without addressing all of the required reforms, only to have its request denied.

In the 1980s, the California legislature allowed districts to apply for waivers if they could demonstrate that laws or rules were hampering school improvement.

Eleven states have already applied for waivers — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Had Sanger been able to apply for a waiver on its own, the district may have had more say in how to adapt to the administration's requirements.

Appeal penalty tax on tax - free savings) has a step - by - step process to apply for a waiver of TFSA excess amount penalties.

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.

School districts applying for a waiver must demonstrate that their tools and methods will have the same level of quality and rigor as the state - recommended process.

Between the time California applied for a waiver and Johnson's denial in March 2008, AB 1493 had become a fuel economy anachronism, mandating a regulatory structure Congress had discarded.

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

For instance, it includes a provision allowing states to apply for a waiver to continue improving services for aging, blind, and disabled citizens.

A new amendment aimed at winning over conservative holdouts would allow states to apply for waivers from Obamacare's requirements to provide certain essential health benefits if they are able to show that the modifications would cut prices.