Sentences with phrase «waiver applications last»
(Calif.) Confronted with a host of new policies and conditions created by a wholesale restructuring of the school testing and accountability system, local educational agencies submitted 416 waiver applications last year — a 30 percent increase over 2016.
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Brown has not responded publicly to the waiver application, and Evan Westrup, Brown's press secretary, declined last week to comment on the letter.
The eight districts that have formed the nonprofit organization California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, are preparing their own application for a waiver from the penalties of the No Child Left Behind law, undeterred by the federal government's rejection last month of a waiver for California.
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.
«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.
States such as Iowa (whose initial No Child waiver application was rejected by the administration last week) and California (whose ideas for a waiver application are even worse than Virginia's plan) should petition the administration for consideration.
The outlines of the state's plans have been in the public domain for close to a year, as they were included in its successful application for a waiver from the federal No Child Left behind Act, approved last February.
As Education Week reported last Friday, the nine California school districts collectively known as CORE (California Office to Reform Education) are busy revising their application for a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver.