Sentences with phrase «waiver applications on»

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.

The department will accept waiver applications on a rolling basis into the next school year.

Not exact matches

Krumpter, who is currently ranked a captain and expected to become village police chief by early next year, received approval from the state Civil Service Commission at its October meeting for what is known as the Section 211 waiver, which was requested by the village through a formal application submitted on Aug. 21, commission spokesman Jian Paolucci said.

State Medicaid director Jason Helgerson is back in Puerto Rico trying to put the finishing touches on an application for a Medicaid waiver the island can send the federal government.

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

In the waiver application, expected to be accepted on Monday, the mayor emphasized Black's managerial background as Chairman of Hearst Magazines, but also noted her membership to several educational boards including that of the Harlem Village Academies Charter School.

Bloomberg, who has not yet submitted an official application to Steiner for the waiver, also weighed in on the schools chancellor appointment during an unrelated press conference Wednesday afternoon, once again insisting that Black, a prominent magazine publishing executive, was qualified for the position.

In its analysis of the eleven waiver applications, the Center on Education Policy found that nine state applicants will base almost all accountability decisions on the achievement of only two students groups; i.e., all students and a «disadvantaged» student group or «super subgroup.»

We also randomly assigned three groups of 3,000 students who met the criteria for our target group to receive just one of the three ECO-C components (application guidance, information on net costs, or fee waivers) rather than all three.

While I was away on vacation, Andy «Eduwonk» Rotherham took to the pages of the Washington Post to excoriate Virginia for setting «together and unequal» standards as part of its approved ESEA - waiver application.

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.

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

Because Washington first made that commitment in its waiver application of February 27, 2012, and Washington was unable to take the steps necessary to fulfill that commitment even after having been given an additional school year (2012 — 2013) to do so, it was placed on high - risk status on August 14, 2013.

The uptick in requests in 2017 reversed a five year trend where LEAs were filing fewer waiver applications following the tumultuous years of the recession where the board activity sought to reduce the strain on cash - strapped schools.

That became official federal policy when the Obama administration called for statewide teacher evaluation guidelines, based in part on student performance, while soliciting for Race To The Top in 2009 and then No Child Left Behind waiver applications in 2011.

* UPDATED LA Unified met today's deadline and filed an application for a No Child Left Behind waiver without one of the key requirements of the U.S. Department of Education — an agreement with the teachers union on a three - level teacher evaluation system.

Fullan, a Canadian author on education reform, is the architect of the collaboration - focused model of school reform, on which CORE has based its NCLB waiver application.

The presidents of local unions wrote their superintendents calling on them to withdraw the waiver application or at least delay it for a year.

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 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).

Report Roundup: NCLB Waiver Applications Analysis, New Data on the State of U.S. Youth, and the Teacher Retention Crisis Reframed

Furthermore, through Louisiana's Elementary and Secondary Education Act Waiver Application, the state will include student scores on ACT tests in a simplified school performance score, beginning in the 2012 - 2013 school year.

Kestell said the draft waiver application has blanks that need to be filled, such as more details on how a school would be rated.

And the state recently refused to include a teacher evaluation system based on student test scores in its application for a waiver from the mandates of No Child Left Behind laws.

The U.S. Department of Education granted New York a waiver, and the following analysis is based on that state's revised application.

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 waiver application state officials submitted in November reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education, and like a game plan for big changes to state education policy that are still to come, including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

It also potentially undermines state authority, creating confusion over who is ultimately responsible for school accountability and improvement, and unearths issues related to the department's capacity to oversee multiple district applications and reform plans on top of the dozens of state waiver plans that it has already approved.

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 public may submit comments on Texas» waiver application through 5 p.m. CST, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, via email to [email protected].

Indiana's currently working on its waiver application, due November 14.

Previously, the renewal application was to be akin to initial waiver applications, with a particular focus on plans for using federal Title II funds for evidence - based professional development and for using teacher - evaluation data to ensure that poor and minority students are not taught by ineffective teachers at disproportionate rates.

In addition to the card's $ 100 Global Entry or TSA PreCheck application waiver, it offers a $ 25 reimbursement for airline fees charged to it when you're traveling on a FlexPerks award ticket.

But there's one minor reason it doesn't quite match up as well as the other cards on this list, and that's because its new $ 100 application fee waiver can only be used for Global Entry, not TSA PreCheck.

On Thursday, Maj. Kristen Lasica - Khaner, a base spokeswoman, said Camp Pendleton has asked for an extension of the waiver application period.

The hold harmless waiver is located on the back of the class registration card and also on the annual membership application.

Successful card application must be made on / before 31 October 2018 in order to be entitled to the annual fee waiver.

Compare, for example, MAC Hotels Limited v. Rider Levett Bucknall UK Limited [2010] EWHC 767 (TCC) in which HHJ Havelock - Allan QC found that collateral waiver could occur by referring to and relying on privileged material in a witness statement served in support of an (as yet unheard) interlocutory application with the approach of Hobhouse J in General Accident Fire and Life Corp v. Tanter [1984] 1 WLR 100, holding that there was no collateral waiver where a privileged note of a conversation was used in cross-examination but before the author of the note was called and before it had been formally admitted in evidence.

Further, the Application Judge determines that although the Respondent waived its right to insist on strict compliance with the terms of the renewal provision, it later revoked its waiver.

Court clerks should accept documents and fee waiver applications filed in this manner, and the judge hearing the case will rule on the application at a later time.

Ultimately, the Texas Supreme Court reversed that decision, but it's still an example of how consequential lien waiver language can be for parties on each side of a payment application.

Work requirements: Kentucky was the first state to formally introduce work requirements based on federal guidelines; according to The New York Times, «the waiver application seeks to require most non-disabled Medicaid beneficiaries age 19 to 64 to work at least 20 hours a week.

The spotlight has been on Xiaomi after Apple's application for such a waiver was turned down by the finance ministry earlier this month.