Sentences with phrase «under waivers»

Disability, critical illness, and severe injury are the most common qualifying conditions under the waiver of premium rider.

The agency is offering a process to waive some of the rule's restrictions if an operator demonstrates the proposed flight will be conducted safely under a waiver.

Under the waiver initiative, many states have dropped those thresholds down to 20 or 30 students, meaning more poor and minority students «count» toward a school's rating.

In addition, schools labeled «priority» under waiver provisions do have to meet the 95 percent test participation requirement to escape that category.

But as states began operating under the 15 percent «priority» and «focus» school structure under waivers, the number of identified schools dropped significantly.

When applying for a Part 107 waiver, applicants need to submit a safety case that demonstrates that the proposed operation under the waiver can be conducted safely.

For example, with the addition of the optional waiver of premium rider, conversion is guaranteed — even if the term insurance policy is under a waiver claim.

As California supports districts statewide to embark on this improvement journey, there are important lessons to be learned from the CORE districts, six of which developed an innovative accountability system under a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Chronic absence is also included in the state's achievement compacts, a part of its accountability system under a waiver from No Child Left Behind.

So it isn't exactly shocking to see U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's move yesterday to issue a letter to state school superintendents in waiver states asking them to «incorporate, to a significant degree» more - accurate graduation rate data as part of the hodgepodge of new accountability systems approved under the waiver gambit.

With 43 states (including the District of Columbia) currently operating under a waiver, recent years have seen substantial movement among state policymakers to develop systems — or improve existing ones — to evaluate the current performance of teachers in a fair and objective manner.

A new paper by USC assistant professor (and Emerging Education Policy Scholar) Morgan Polikoff and his colleagues finds that many of the state accountability systems approved under the waivers continue to rely predominantly on proficiency rates instead of individual student progress over time.

[ix] Additionally, given the overrepresentation of Black students in the Intellectual disability category, it is likely that Black students would be overrepresented among students instructed and assessed outside of their grade level, raising additional concerns about the civil rights of students under this waiver request.

Additionally, given the overrepresentation of Black students in the Intellectual disability category, it is likely that Black students would be overrepresented among students instructed and assessed outside of their grade level, raising additional concerns about the civil rights of students under this waiver request.

As in the case of Oklahoma (whose own failures in getting its No Child waiver renewed was discussed on these pages in August), Washington State had ample opportunity to muster the political will needed to change the law in order to fulfill its promise under the waiver.

(Calif.) California schools with only a quarter of their students coming from low - income households would be allowed to spend federal Title I money on schoolwide programs, under a waiver process pending before the state board of education.

The Georgia Board of Bar Examiners may have violated the procedural due process rights of a lawyer licensed in Louisiana when it offered no explanation for its denial of her application for bar admission under a waiver program for military spouses, the ABA says in an amicus brief.

Do conservatives want to continue to live under a waiver policy that grants the U.S. Department of Education the authority to micromanage states» annual tests, accountability systems, and teacher evaluation approaches?

Since some Oklahoma children have already started the school year, the Education Department will phase in some of the consequences of No Child Left Behind that Oklahoma had escaped under the waiver: The state must provide tutoring services and public school choice options no later than the 2015 - 16 school year.

Economic support aid is distributed partly by USAID via vetted contractors, and partly directly to the Palestinian Authority under waivers issued by the President (the waiver numbers fluctuate a lot year - to - year, but have totaled $ 900M under Obama's administration as of 2014; this is taken out of the economic support fund).

Some of the distinctive components of the Healthy Michigan Plan, and permitted under a waiver granted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hadn't launched by the end of the first 100 days, and so can't yet be analyzed.

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

«Washington state has been doing great work under our waiver agreement,» Dorn said.

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

This was made clear last year in a report released last year by the New America Foundation that showed that 73 percent of 6,058 failure mills in 16 states identified under No Child in 2011 - 2012 escaped scrutiny under the waiver gambit a year later.

Designed by the State Office of Education, it's been approved by federal officials under a waiver from No Child Left Behind requirements.

Data dashboards can help alleviate some of the shortcomings in accountability systems that have been in place in the wake of NCLB and the systems that states have implemented under waivers to that law.

At a glance, student performance at the three schools does not provide many clues as to why Edgewood and Pine are called out for interventions under waivers but not NCLB, while the reverse is true for Knapp.

But while most states Hyslop studied identified fewer schools in need of improvement under the waivers, Indiana actually designated more schools as «focus» and «priority» after appealing to the federal government for flexibility.

States that already have evaluation systems in place under their waiver plans do not have to change them.

Texas, New Hampshire, Minnesota and New York are among those that have also developed more holistic school accountability models under the waiver umbrella and officials in those states have reported that they believe their systems align well with the goals of ESSA.

Therefore, the benefit obtained by the defendants from their alleged wrongful conduct would arguably equate to the measure of recovery by the class under the waiver of tort claim...

There are countless people every year that find that their specific situation doesn't fall under the waiver of premium rider, which can cause serious financial strain to a family, or causes a family to lose their life insurance coverage.

States will not be required to deliver follow - up actions previously required under waivers, unless such actions relate to areas covered by ESSA.

The FAA is offering a process to waive some restrictions if an operator proves the proposed flight will be conducted safely under a waiver.

O'Neal «is undeniably a military spouse eligible for admission» under the waiver program's objective criteria, the ABA brief says.

After all, under the waiver gambit, the administration has required states to adopt «college and career - ready» curricula standards in reading and math in exchange for ignoring AYP.

Under a waiver from NCLB approved earlier this month, the goal is for 50 percent of students to score proficient on the new state reading test and 65 percent to score proficient on the new state math test by 2017.

With the exception of California, under Waiver of Premium, total disability is defined as: (1) during the first two years of total disability, the insured is unable, due to sickness or injury, to perform any of the duties of his or her regular occupation; (2) after the first two years of total disability, the insured is unable, due to sickness or injury, to perform any gainful work for which he or she is reasonably fitted by education, training, or experience.

Critics also pointed out that the new accountability systems under the waivers may hide deficiencies in the performance of children in previously closely watched sub-groups and may weaken incentives to improve performance of those children.

[vi] Six of these districts have been operating since 2013 under a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education to implement an accountability system that aims to be both more holistic and more useful for improving practice than they believe is possible based on test scores alone.