Sentences with phrase «waiver plan»

Requires state waiver plans to include implementation of college - and career - ready standards and annual student testing.

See the latest waiver information, including the original and approved waiver plans for each state.

These steps will apply no matter what travel protection you choose although we should warn you that most waiver plans and trip benefits won't stand up to all the steps.

It's probably pretty easy for state officials to cheer the administration's waiver plan when there aren't any real details out yet.

Read the report, which includes examples and highlights from the state waiver plans.

All of the NCLB waiver plans approved by the USDOE included the use of the CCSS and national assessments tied to incentives (aka: consequence) for teachers and school administrators.

Many travel insurance plans also give a traveler options as optional riders that overcome the exclusions that most credit card plans and cruise waiver plans do not.

No Child Left Behind Waivers: Promising Ideas from Second - Round Applications An evaluation of states» No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver plans by the Center for American Progress (CAP) finds states are significantly changing their school accountability and educator effectiveness policies but that certain details of their reform plans remain murky.

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 Obama administration's new waiver plan (officially here, and covered extensively here, here, and here — and elsewhere, I'm sure) doesn't officially repeal the No Child Left Behind Act, but it is tantamount to making large - scale amendments to it.

The requirements of the NCLB waiver plan raise some serious implications for these students that educators must approach with caution.

Although the Department of Education can allow some adjustments that remain in the spirit of the law (even if not necessarily in the letter of it), the Obama waiver plan's goal of allowing states to evade accountability may violate both spirit and letter of federal law.

The situation is further complicated by a number of related products like cruise waiver plans, one - size - fits - all insurance you can buy when booking your flight, and credit card travel protection plans.

Their report recommended that Syracuse implement a Medicare Part D Employer Waiver Plan, which had become available the year before, to reduce prescription drug costs for retirees.

Andy Rotherham: It is impossible to discuss the Obama administration's waiver plan without also discussing and understanding the general political and governmental dysfunction plaguing Washington.

In September 2011, President Obama announced ESEA Flexibility, a new public education waiver plan to grant state education agencies increased flexibility in meeting NCLB requirements.

Finally, the NCLB waiver plan attempts to encourage innovative teacher and principal evaluation.

It's unclear if the Obama administration, which has its own waiver plan, even wants a reauthorization.

Driving Alexander is his urgency to prevent the Obama administration's NCLB waiver plan from taking effect.

Travelers purchasing a «travel protection plan» may not be aware of the differences between a travel protection or waiver plan purchased through a travel agent and a travel insurance plan purchased through a licensed travel insurance agent.

If so, it would need to act quickly; the first set of states to submit waiver plans will be notified by mid-January about the status of their applications.

In response to some of the law's criticisms and the inability for Congress to approve reauthorization efforts, the Administration proposed a new NCLB waiver plan for states.

Cruise travelers are usually offered a host of protection plans and waiver plans by the cruise line operator when they schedule and pay for their cruise travel.

In part because of the midterm realignment, Duncan, a man with both the stamina of an athlete and the full backing of the president, has so far failed to enshrine his policies — but the new waiver plan is one attempt to do so.

Such a requirement did not exist in federal law, and many of the same individuals and organizations now apoplectic about Secretary Duncan's waiver plan raised no objections to Spellings's approach at the time.

But the Obama waiver plan is more than just a slight adjustment.

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.

Andrew Smarick, who helped write New Jersey's waiver plan as a deputy education commissioner in that state, told the Senate panel that he is worried that Congress will roll out a new education law just as the waivers are taking root.

States with NCLB waiver plans would be able to continue their accountability systems; all other states would have to develop systems that include student achievement and growth; English language proficiency; and, for high schools, graduation rates.

Given the track record and the way the past decade unfolded in terms of the conversation about NCLB, that seems like a bad bet, whether a judge ultimately upholds or strikes down this waiver plan.

Yet in September in its regular monthly survey, consulting firm Whiteboard Advisors asked a bipartisan group of policy and political insiders whether they thought Secretary Duncan's waiver plan would be challenged in court, and 63 percent said yes.

«We're going to let states, schools and teachers come up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future,» promised Obama when announcing his NCLB waiver plan.

Such innovation is sabotaged by the waiver plan due to limited time and financial resources as well as little evidenced - based research to model.

The waiver plan and its requirement for CCSS will refocus states» attention on competing with each other rather than first ensuring that all of their own students are succeeding academically.

Within the proposed NCLB waiver plan, a state must comply with three requirements to become eligible for the waiver.

Some believe that Duncan and Obama's Sept. 23 announcement of their waiver plan, during which they condemned Congress for failing to overhaul NCLB and offered a method to skirt Congressional approval, has prompted lawmakers to move to revamp the law.

The next requirement of the proposed NCLB waiver plan is that only 15 % of the lowest performing schools be identified.

In fact, that is much of the point of the Obama administration's waiver plan.

That meant the goals set under Virginia's waiver plan were not aggressive enough to boost the scores of low performers and cut the achievement gap in half over six years.

«While I appreciate some of the policies outlined in the secretary's waivers plan, I simply can not support a process that grants the secretary of education sweeping authority to handpick winners and losers,» said Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, who is chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

If Congress manages to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) before the new year, the administration's NCLB waiver plan would be rendered unnecessary and not take effect.

States that already have evaluation systems in place under their waiver plans do not have to change them.

(The waiver plan does call for regional centers to discuss school - specific strategies with school and district leaders as part of a «collaborative» effort, although it does not say district and school leaders must sign off on those strategies.)

The problem with the waiver plan, as Torlakson has said, is the potential cost related to complying with Obama's conditions.

Ed Week found that the «short answer seems to be: They are leaning a fair amount on their waiver plans and other work that was going on when waivers were handed out.»

Reaction to the waiver plan has been mixed.