"To seek a waiver" means to ask for permission to not comply with a particular rule or requirement.
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The requirement was one of the conditions that the department imposed on states
seeking a waiver from penalties of the No Child Left Behind law.
However, it would also allow states to
seek waivers under which they could redefine what's considered an essential health benefit.
To date, 32 states have won permission to depart from the law, five are waiting to hear and 13 have
not sought waivers.
The state could
still seek waivers from changes that board members don't like — but only after a plan is submitted.
Prior to the new ruling, companies wanting to use drones needed to
seek waivers from the federal government.
The Obama administration also required that teacher evaluations be tied to student performance for
states seeking waivers from the mandates of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and California as a result did not receive a waiver, although six districts, including LA Unified, did receive them.
The planned redevelopment of the former Nine Inch Nails recording studio on Magazine Street and the proposed expansion of Audubon Charter School both return to a city board Wednesday morning
seeking waivers required to start their projects.
CNN and BNSF Railway (whose parent company is Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a)-RRB- are two organizations that have
already sought waivers, Huerta said.
For example, in Dallas, I'm able to break even, but even I could make my program look like it was not breaking even for six months [a requirement for districts
seeking a waiver].
While he noted that he isn't Papadopoulos» direct supervisor, Maragos said he'd
seek a waiver allowing her employment.
Curran will
also seek a waiver from the state Civil Service Commission to allow Williams to work for the county while still collecting her $ 130,000 per year state pension.
Cat
owners seeking a waiver from required vaccinations must present a valid veterinary record or veterinary receipts showing that your cat has received an appropriate up - to - date «distemper series» consisting of at least two FVRCP vaccines given 14 - 28 days apart and a rabies vaccine by a licensed veterinarian.
The data, posted to the group's SeeThroughNY database, comes as the Republican - led Senate on Wednesday backed a measure that would hike the amount retired government workers under age 64 can be paid
without seeking waivers, from $ 30,000 to $ 35,000.
The state has been
seeking the waiver since 2012, citing $ 34 billion in savings achieved through the Medicaid Redesign Team.
Ganim is
currently seeking a waiver from the State Elections Enforcement Commission because convicted felons can not receive public financing for political campaigns.
New York State requires
employers seeking waivers to do «extensive recruitment efforts» and to have determined there are «no available qualified non-retirees.»
The number of waivered classrooms is not caused simply by the number of students whose parents
initially seek waivers.
The nine CORE districts
seeking the waiver include three of the state's four largest districts — Los Angeles, Long Beach and Fresno Unified — as well as Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento City, Santa Ana, Sanger and Clovis, which combined serve more than a million students.
In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to
seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for school.
Knowing that they had no control over independent - minded 11th - graders, the governor and State Department of
Education sought a waiver from Washington, D.C., for permission to offer what they hoped would be a more palatable test: the SAT.
In the U.K., lawyers for Rupert Murdoch's News of the
World sought a waiver from their duty of confidentiality in order to discuss the legal advice that they gave in the phone hacking scandal.
Also, he has helped review petitions from
felons seeking a waiver to take the CMA (AAMA) Certification Examination.
Education Week States
seeking waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act are hoping to replace what is widely considered an outdated, but consistent, school accountability regime with a...
A district court has granted a plaintiff's motion to remand a lawsuit back to a state court after the plaintiff, who was
seeking a waiver of ineligibility from the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, withdrew his allegation that his rights under the United States Constitution were violated.
States seeking waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act are hoping to replace what is widely considered an outdated, but consistent, school accountability regime with a hodgepodge of complex school grading systems that are as diverse as the states themselves.
In states that did
n't seek a waiver under the MacArthur Amendment, the AHCA would have included a premium surcharge for people who didn't maintain continuous coverage.
Districts could
already seek a waiver to serve grains foods that aren't «whole grain - rich,» and while some advocates are upset that there won't be further sodium reductions (at least for now), school food is still lower in salt than it was pre-HHFKA.
The perception in the media right now is that school meals are going to be less healthy, and parents won't know which districts are still meeting the standards [and which have
sought waivers].
Owners of the estimated 220 dogs at Camp Pendleton that fallunder the new policy can
seek a waiver allowing them to keep theanimal if the dog passes the American Kennel Club's Canine GoodCitizen Test, which measures friendliness with strangers andbehavior when other dogs are around.
They can
also seek a waiver from the state board to allow them time to phase out operations.
Dog
owners seeking a waiver from required vaccinations must present a valid veterinary record or veterinary receipts showing that your dog has received an appropriate up - to - date «distemper series» consisting of at least two DHPP vaccines given 14 — 28 days apart and a rabies vaccine by a licensed veterinarian.
Because the deal that secured the votes of the conservative House sect known as the Freedom Caucus, allows states to
seek waivers that let them opt out of basic protections for some citizens — rules, for example, that prevent insurers from charging virtually anything they want to «cover» those with preexisting conditions or that demand that insurers provide certain basic health and preventive care services.
Aceto said it was
seeking a waiver «in light of the persistent adverse conditions in the generics market» and added that it no longer stands by financial guidance it issued in February.
Company said it was
seeking a waiver «in light of the persistent adverse conditions in the generics market.»
Aceto Corp. shares tumbled after the firm said it is
seeking a waiver from its bank regarding debt service and financial covenants, naming a new interim CFO and taking hundreds of millions of dollars in write - downs related to its products.
The Company will
seek a waiver from NYSE American's shareholder approval requirements in circumstances where the securities issuance does not trigger such a requirement under British Columbia law or under the rules of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Meanwhile, the House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to
seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.
In Illinois, a bill that went nowhere in 2011 would have
sought a waiver to ban carbonated soft drinks, snack cakes, candies, chewing gum and «fried, high - fat chips» — apparently sparing the Baked Lays.