Sentences with phrase «waiver from the law known»

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Under state law, individuals convicted of a felony must get a waiver from the courts, known as a «certificate of good conduct,» to run for public office.

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

Faced with intense opposition from teachers, Sacramento City Unified announced Wednesday it would not join other California districts in reapplying for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Also, because of the anticipated approval of a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools and districts won't be judged as failing to meet adequate yearly progress this year, Johnson said.

The Department of Public Instruction developed the system — which identifies schools as «focus» and «priority» — to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which for the past decade has resulted in sanctions for certain schools.

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Education.

Last year, Washington became the first state to lose its waiver from some of the strictest requirements of that law, known as the No Child Left Behind Act, because lawmakers here refused to require school districts to use student test scores as part of evaluating teacher effectiveness.

Although the board approved applying for a waiver from some parts of the federal law known as the No Child Left Behind Act, this was not the same waiver that the board had approved in 2012.

However, having multiple tests could jeopardize the state's waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law and federal funding.

Indiana and the 25 other states granted waivers from certain requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law will still have to send student data to Washington, D.C., writes Sarah D. Sparks for Education Week:

Oklahoma will not lose control over a portion of its federal funding next year, according to state officials, who announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Education has restored the state's waiver from the 2001 accountability law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

The state was required to issue the report cards this year in order to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

A system must be in place by the 2014 - 15 school year for Wisconsin to qualify for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

He says even though Indiana has a waiver from some of the federal No Child Left Behind law's strictest provisions, things like school letter grades and teacher evaluations are still tied to standardized test scores.

The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

Former Superintendent John Deasy had argued that the district was exempt from the Parent Trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law, allowing LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

States across the country have followed the District's lead, many in pursuit of rewards — such as billions of dollars in federal Race to the Top funds and waivers from the most onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law — that the Obama administration granted to states that agreed to use student test scores in teacher evaluations.