Sentences with phrase «waiver package»

There is an auto rental collision damage waiver package you can sign up for, there is extra purchase security and extended protection, and there is travel and emergency assistance services.

Besides, the Obama administration's waiver package set up an incentive structure that simultaneously pushed Congress forward while also making an overhaul less urgent for states crying out for relief.

It's not a coincidence that a bill emerged and a mark - up was held just weeks after the announcement of the Administration's waiver package.

Rotherham observes that there are some broadly supported provisions in the administration's waiver package, such as getting rid of NCLB's «highly qualified teacher rules,» which many states «have gamed... to the point of meaninglessness.»

Then there was (Democratic) President Obama's waiver package, which allows states to make a pitch for their own approach to accountability.

There are a number of sensible (and often broadly supported) provisions in the administration's waiver package, but there are problems, too.

After the waiver package was released, ESEA bills proliferated in the House and Senate, cresting with the release of the Harkin - Enzi bill, the first comprehensive rewrite since the law's expiration.

The combination of the waiver package with Obama's other recently - announced executive orders has convinced Jack Jennings, a former hill staffer who leads the Center on Education Policy, that Obama is running against Congress.

When that didn't happen, he and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan essentially rewrote it on their own by releasing a waiver package that allows states that adapt the administration's reforms to opt out of the law's most cumbersome requirements.

The administration's waiver package and an NCLB reauthorization bill that passed out of the Senate education committee last year essentially scrap AYP as it's used now.

Earlier this summer, Kline had a tense back - and - forth with Duncan, and was unsatisfied that his request for more information on the waiver package yielded few specifics.

«Given the ill - advised and partisan bills that the House majority has chosen to move, I understand Secretary Duncan's decision to proceed with a waiver package to provide some interim relief while Congress finishes its work,» Harkin said in a statement.

«We're going to work with states on a waiver package.

He hasn't provided any details of the waiver package.

While American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten lauded the waiver package, she said she was disappointed with the teacher evaluation component.

The waiver package sparked a debate on the Education Department's policymaking limits, with Republican members of Congress calling the move a federal overreach.

Obama's rollback comes in the form of a waiver package: States that seek relief from NCLB's provisions — including the 100 percent proficiency requirement in reading and math by 2014, increasingly harsh sanctions against schools deemed as «failing» or the strictly dictated use of federal education money — will have to adapt certain administration - mandated reforms.

But it never happened, and now the administration is moving ahead with a waiver package that Obama's own secretary of education thinks is stronger than any of the legislation under consideration.

To Hladio, Obama's waiver package «feels like throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, especially in an election year.»