Sentences with phrase «waiver application review»

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it has accepted their waiver application and will treat it as they would an application from other states, with a formal review.

The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).

The waiver application and review process encourages states to consider how their state standards can support learning and instruction for English language learners and how teacher and leader evaluation systems can improve the quality of instruction for these students.

While several states made their NCLB waiver application proposals and review sheets available online, the review group's letter to CORE has not been made publicly available by the Education Department in Washington or the California districts that are applying for the waiver.

The U.S. Department of Education is currently reviewing those applications and had approved waivers for 23 states at the time of publication.

Specifically, those reviewing states» waiver applications have been encouraged to consider the manner in which states address the needs of English language learners in each of these principle areas, with the exception of principle four.

TXCC is assisting TEA in reviewing and providing feedback on the state's ESEA waiver request application.

A review of the improvements all 11 states made to their waiver applications based on feedback from the department and the peer review panel indicates that New Mexico wasn't alone in failing to meet expectations in those areas at the outset.

The department has indicated it will accept and review NCLB waiver applications on a rolling basis throughout this school year, giving Texas and the other holdout states plenty of time to develop and submit waiver plans if they so choose.

State officials spelled out this goal in their NCLB waiver application (which we've annotated for easy reading below the jump), which they submitted for review to the U.S. Department of Education this week.

«Fullan reviewed CORE's waiver application, which cites his writing and says that CORE's «alternative accountability model and day - to - day work» is motivated by the «changed culture and positive and lasting improvements» in Ontario.