Sentences with phrase «waiver plans»

These may seem like tempting options, but most of these waiver plans do not fulfill the same needs as true trip insurance.

A future credit isn't the same as getting your cash back and these waiver plans don't cover your airfare and other pre-paid trip expenses.

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.

I come back to this because some of the states turning in their plans have made few, if any, changes to their NCLB Waiver plans and are simply turning those in to comply with the ESSA plan requirement.

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

While the [Education] Department intended for states» waiver plans to catalyze better evaluation and improvement activities, it only provided specific guidance on the former.»

Only Texas opted to extend NCLB's 100 percent proficiency deadline to a later date when setting goals in their waiver plans; other states designed different options (Figure 5).

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.

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.

See all the waiver plans submitted to the department to date.

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.

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.»

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

The administration granted waivers to states such as New York, New Mexico, and Oklahoma failed to consult with American Indian tribes on waiver plans as required by the administration's own rules for the waiver process, Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, and under treaties between tribes and states themselves.

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.

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

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

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 company expects the Final Rate Notice to result in a 3.00 percent (e) rate increase for Humana's individual Medicare Advantage business versus CMS» estimate for the sector of 3.50 percent, excluding the impact of Employer Group Waiver Plan (EGWP) funding changes, on a comparable basis.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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

Reaction to the waiver plan has been mixed.

The CORE districts, which include Los Angeles and San Francisco, submitted a waiver plan that reflects their commitment to preparing educators to effectively implement the Common Core State Standards; evaluating educators based, in part, on student outcomes; and taking a broader approach to accountability that encompasses academic preparedness, social and emotional learning, and school climate and culture.

Similar to the Senate bill and the NCLB waiver plan, the bill scraps adequately yearly progress (AYP) and the maligned 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline.

The change is a marked departure from the Obama administration's NCLB waiver plan, which both requires the development of new teacher evaluation systems and specifies that results from such systems must be used in personnel decisions.

The waiver plan doesn't address the crisis of low educational achievement among young men of all backgrounds, one of the leading symptoms of the education crisis.

Franken said it was too early to comment further on the waiver plan before seeing more details.

Less than a month later, he embarked on a bus tour in early September to discuss with education leaders both the waiver plan and the economic hardships many districts face.

pressed Duncan for specifics on his waiver plan.

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.

While Duncan's waiver plan would give states more autonomy in education management, that independence comes with the attached strings of Duncan's favored reforms, to be announced soon.

For instance, South Carolina seems to be on board with the waiver plan, but it didn't want a Race to the Top grant that could have come with similar strings.

If he does go down that path, the administration's waiver plan — in the face of Congress» stalled re-writes of the unpopular No Child Left Behind law — would be a logical talking point for the President's election - year State of the Union address Tuesday night.

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

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

When you book your cruise travel, you are usually offered some type of a protection plan or a waiver plan by the cruise line operator or from the travel agent.