Sentences with phrase «waiver process»

Or counselors may be too busy to do their part of the fee waiver process.

The expanded waiver process is the administration's attempt to implement its own reforms, and the process comes with political risk.

Monroe County Clerk Adam Bello has expressed concerns in the past month about fee waivers processed by the previous administration.

Then there's today's «incentive,» built into the NCLB waiver process, for states to adopt the Common Core as exactly the same sort of evidence.

It was only when the development of assessments began, and the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) No Child Left Behind waiver process included clear requirements for evaluating teachers based partly on student test scores, that the unions began to balk.

However well - intentioned State Senator Eric Adams» proposed legislation may be, it will not have any application to the current waiver process.

The Medicaid Family Planning State Option would simply allow states to expand their Medicaid family planning services, including cancer screenings and other preventive care, to more women in need, without having to go through the burdensome Medicaid waiver process.

Many of those clients have much at stake in the coming waiver process, and Introne will have a key role in deciding which hospitals ultimately receive funding from the waiver, which will be disbursed over a period of five years, and is intended to help hospitals transform their delivery systems.

All fees requested from families will be communicated to families as early as possible, and a clear waiver process will be made available to ensure no undue economic hardship is caused by student fees.

(Calif.) In an effort to make charter school facilities ruled illegal in a recent court case compliant, state officials are recommending the unauthorized uses be allowed to temporarily remain open under a state waiver process.

Die Erkenntnis, dass der Handel mit 3 Jan 2013 This final rule implements the provisional unlawful presence waiver process. . .

Congress should, in my opinion, move on the full agenda — rationalizing and solidifying the patchwork waiver process and reinforcing the need to improve our schools.

Two, this decision shows how capricious the whole waiver process has been.

Possible strategies include certification waiver processes and alternate routes that balance charter school autonomy and accountability.

Yet Newark's School Superintendent Cami Anderson has upped the ante in the little - used waiver process by requesting that the Christie administration let her lay off potentially hundreds of teachers over the next three years based on performance first, and seniority second.

This week, California's state board of education will consider a proposal by the state's department of education to ask federal officials for direct relief from NCLB without going through the official waiver process.

The CORE waiver process does not reflect the work of a broad - based diverse group of individuals with a genuine stake in their school.

Today, President Obama outlined a new federal waiver process to allow states flexibility from some of NCLB's sanctions if they meet several conditions.

The new website launched today will provide access to each agency's Buy America provisions, requirements and waiver processes on one web site.

The whopping 1,150 - page bill (PDF), which closely tracks the Obama administration's NCLB waiver process, jettisons major components of NCLB's accountability system — including the impractical 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline and the adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets toward that goal — while still maintaining a federal role in education.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

Senate Democrats have penned a No Child Left Behind reauthorization proposal that's expected to look a lot like the Department of Education's current waiver process, writes Alyson Klein for Education Week:

Also known as the Medicaid Family Planning State Option, it would simply allow states to expand their Medicaid family planning services, including cancer screenings and other preventive care, to more women in need, without having to go through the burdensome Medicaid waiver process.

At what point does this waiver process nullify the law?

The Patriots were eager to snap him up through the waiver process, and while he returned to the field to make two appearances with the team, Bennett eventually headed to injured reserve for shoulder surgery.

Vilsack acknowledged that Congress had asked in report language that USDA consider a waiver, but added, «Since report language is nonbinding in nature, and statutory prohibitions are binding, USDA is respectfully unable to comply with the directive to establish a waiver process.»

Since report language is non-binding in nature, and statutory prohibitions are binding, USDA is respectfully unable to comply with the directive to establish a waiver process.

Of that incident, which involved Iraqi immigrant Hameed Darweesh, the official said it «demonstrates that the exemptions and waivers process that we put into place is already working exactly as intended.»

Cuomo has investigated pension fund double - dipping and has urged the Legislature to restrict the waiver process.

Two other retirees joined CUNY before they turned 65 and were paid with Research Foundation money, circumventing the waiver process, public records show.

But in an effort to ease the process, the Regents board members in September approved a waiver process that allows districts to delay implementation.

But Cuomo said the waiver process undermines mayoral control of city schools, which he fully supports and is working to roll out to other cities across the state.

A waiver process exists for contractors who can prove they've made a strong effort to recruit local and disadvantaged workers but were unable to meet the threshold requirements.

The waivers process through which students could pass along to the next grade without meeting test score cutoffs was fleshed out in 2000, formalizing procedures through which classroom grades, attendance, and teachers» recommendations could be factored into retention decisions.

In fact, he would like to see a waiver process associated with the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law's testing mandate.

Partly that's because this is the only part of this waiver process that I find legitimate and legal; the Department of Education has no business demanding that states adopt and implement the Common Core standards or rigorous teacher evaluations.

Alexander criticized Duncan for trying to dictate how the state of Washington evaluates its teachers through the waiver process.

He established a waiver process that effectively allowed two - thirds of the states to deviate from various requirements of the law — most prominently the requirement that all students be proficient in math and reading by the end of this year.

We have actually moved reasonably close to these changes in some dimensions, partly because of the standards and testing associated with the common core and partly because of the waiver process.

That's why, assuming that Congress fails to act to reauthorize the law, in the end the same problem that has vexed the law since 2001 seems likely to plague the waiver process as it grinds on over time: how to give states flexibility yet ensure that they hold schools accountable for results.

In 2014, House education committee chair John Kline and Senator Lamar Alexander asked the GAO to study the waiver process, dryly observing, «The department has provided no justifications for these seemingly contradictory decisions.»

Public discussion leading up to the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015 focused on the controversial testing, standards, and teacher evaluation provisions of the previous reauthorization, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; 2002), and its waiver process.

A large number attempted to avoid the mandate through the SBE's waiver process but virtually all of them were turned down.

Schools struggling to meet requirements of the Quality Education Investment Act can expect to receive favorable treatment through the waiver process overseen by the California State Board of Education.

General ESEA flexibility update noting for states that the waiver process continues through August 1, 2016

And so there remains one vestige from the law meant to protect subgroups during the waiver process: annual measurable objectives, or AMOs.

(Two leaders at Education Trust, although not Ms. Wilkins, are also serving as the department's peer reviewers for this waiver process.)

The waiver process would apply to those schools as well, DelGrosso said.