Sentences with phrase «waiver policy for»

The FAA has updated its waiver policy for drone operation; operators with waivers will automatically receive certain COAs.

Though Georgia typically requires practice for five of the last seven years when out - of - state lawyers seek bar admission, that requirement was overridden by the waiver policy for military spouses, the ABA says.

Not exact matches

The waivers are intended for facilities producing less than 75,000 barrels per day (bpd) that can also prove compliance with the policy would cause them «disproportionate economic hardship.»

«If the waiver is done online or on a form returned to school, parents may be left without information at home to guide them if or when their child is injured,» says Clark, who is also a member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

So while I'm not a fan of conditional waivers as a policy, I must admit that it was an effective tool for waking the Senate out of its slumber.

A stated desire to increase the amount of time students spend in school should be compelling enough justification for a waiver from this misguided policy.

Which states are leading the way and which are just checking off the policy box for an NCLB waiver?

Other critics claimed we were «mandating» that states adopt these policies, but states always had an option of whether or not to pursue grant funding or NCLB waivers (five states chose not to apply for a waiver, and others did so only after watching many other states earn approval).

RttT and the waiver policies it engendered must therefore be counted as extraordinary political successes if only because they allowed the Obama administration to substitute its priorities for those of its predecessor.

Passed in 2008, it invited proposals for creating innovation schools, which could request waivers to district policies, state statutes, and union contracts — including tenure for new teachers — if 60 percent of the teachers voted for the Innovation Plan.

Rewards in the form of a waiver, or incentives in the form of a state innovation grant or site - based merit pay, could be included in a public academy contract with a host school district; so must corrective action policies for academic or fiscal malfeasance.

• The bill passed by the House education committee • One of the two options offered by Senator Alexander • Senator Murray's ESEA floor speech • The president's radio address and Secretary Duncan's speech • CCSSO • The George W. Bush Institute • The diverse groups organized by Ed Trust, the Business Roundtable, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • The Foundation for Excellence in Education • The official policies of both NCLB and the Obama administration's ESEA - waiver initiative

It is wrong for them to use waivers as a means to force states to adopt substantive policies that aren't in the text of NCLB.

Yet the Department's waiver policy says that, in order to receive waivers, states «must submit a request that addresses each of the following four principles, consistent with the definitions and timelines described later in this document, to increase the quality of instruction for students and improve student academic achievement in the State and its [districts].»

Waivers have typically been used for adaptation to variation among states, which bedevils American public administration, and to encourage policy innovations sought by incumbent administrations.

However, because such a policy is likely to be controversial in a country dedicated to open access, and might have unintended effects, it would be best to test it out in a small - scale program, under a state waiver as allowed by the president's proposed Race to the Top Fund for higher education.

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.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

Chad Aldeman, a senior policy analyst at Bellwether Education Partners, said the high - risk label for these waivers sends a clear signal to states about obeying the timeline outlined by the department.

This marks the first time the Education Department has stripped a state of its waiver on the grounds of academic standards, said Anne Hyslop, a senior policy analyst for Bellwether Education Partners.

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.

The best indicator of the imperfections of NCLB is the large number of states that the federal government has awarded waivers from NCLB requirements in exchange for planning and pursuing new policies, such as enhanced teacher evaluation systems.

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 main sticking points for board members who voted no on Monday revolved around student demographics, staffing and waivers or departures from district policy in the proposed charter contract.

Some teachers needed waivers from principals to vary school policy (for example, to give comments rather than grades on interim assessments).

But the law expired in 2007 without congressional reauthorization, and the Obama administration has encouraged states to apply for waivers that allow them to avoid AYP penalties and the 2014 goal in exchange for adopting policies favored by the Obama Department of Education, such as tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Second, the new superintendent began to recognize other instances in which district policies were likely to conflict with Dewey's approach — such as requirements for districtwide professional development — and in some cases, offered the school waivers even before the principal requested them.

Teachers in a few high - need areas (e.g. special education, math, and science) are eligible to apply for a waiver of the residency policy.

In 2003, North Carolina enacted the Innovative Education Initiatives Act of 2003 (updated in 2005), which allowed policy waivers regarding seat time requirements and limited age restrictions for younger students enrolling in institutions of higher education, thus leading to the creation of innovative high school models including Learn and Earn high schools.

Today, changes to federal accountability policy and the state plans that have been submitted for compliance purposes herald a national shift toward the work the CORE districts have been doing since their waiver was granted.

While most states were granted waivers, giving them access to federal funds in exchange for promised policy changes, California's application was rejected.

Duncan and Melody Barnes, director of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House, said they are encouraging all states to apply for waivers in exchange for reforms.

The Texas waiver request is of particular interest to education leaders and policy experts, not only because of the state's considerable student population, but also because Texas has suggested that it would apply for a waiver without agreeing to all of the college - and career - readiness, school improvement, and teacher effectiveness reforms that the department is requiring in exchange for flexibility on key components of the law.

Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy, told The Huffington Post that he expects the «vast majority of states» to apply for waivers.

He should not substitute his opinions about what constitutes good policy (like eliminating tutoring for struggling students or mandating national standards) as a quid pro quo for federal waivers.

To date, some 42 states have availed themselves of these waivers, leaving Representative Kline to declare, «We're in the intolerable position of the secretary of education writing and implementing education policy for the country.»

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.

That they continuously backed Obama's reckless, shoddy, bumbling, and counterproductive No Child waiver gambit, which essentially eviscerated the law and paved the way for congressional Republicans and traditionalists to pass the Every Student Succeeds Act, means that the best of the president's political legacy on education policy (including Race to the Top) will probably end up in history's ashbin.

States can go beyond offering waivers by enacting policies that provide broader default permission for high schools to operate in different ways, particularly when it comes to awarding credit toward graduation.17

In 2011, it started granting waivers to states to free them from the more onerous requirements of the law in exchange for embracing Obama's policies, such as evaluating teachers in part based on student test scores.

The policies the Obama administration has advanced in exchange for NCLB waivers are sensible, if less ambitious than those that came before.

Pushback against the strong federal role, goals perceived as unrealistic, and other perceived flaws in the law resulted in a migration to increased state flexibility and experimentation — with federally established principles and state - driven policies for achieving them governed by waivers from federal law.

Federal policy also has reflected much of this change, with the U.S. Department of Education providing options for states to seek waivers from some of the dated NCLB requirements (in light of delays in Congressional reauthorization of that law), in an effort to promote innovation toward satisfaction of the rigorous kinds of standards established by the common core state standards.

Automatic closure laws «identify a threshold of minimally - acceptable performance» for charter schools; schools falling below this threshold at the time of renewal, or that remain below this threshold for a set amount of time, are automatically closed.29 The National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waivers.

And although all but a handful of states operated under a waiver as of the 2015 --- 16 school year, the enactment of ESSA meant that all ESEA waivers expired in August 2016.50 Under waivers, states were empowered to make policy choices altering how accountability works for schools.

But waivers are no substitute for pushing legislatively for strong federal policy that advances reform.

The perceived gridlock made Duncan impatient, he said, and sparked his August announcement that he would grant waivers to states from certain components of NCLB in exchange for their signing onto his policies.

how to finance the reform efforts (e.g., reconfiguring existing organizational structures and budgets, granting policy waivers, doing away with programs peripheral to the district reform priorities, raising funds through local bond elections and community contributions, competing for government and foundation grants);

But his tenure wasn't without its criticisms: He was also responsible for shepherding more contentious policies such as the rigorous standards tied to RTTT and the teacher evaluation systems that accompanied NCLB waivers.

House education chairman John Kline (R - MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the top - ranking Republican on the education committee, have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO)-- Congress's investigative arm — conduct a study on the department's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver policies, specifically examining the cost of applying for such waivers and the implications of the waivers on teacher and principal evaluation systems.