Sentences with phrase «waiver proposal does»

Indiana Department of Education officials say the state's waiver proposal does enough to hold schools accountable for making sure the most at - risk students make progress.

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After Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke exempted Florida from his proposal last week to reopen offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, Cuomo tweeted: «Where do we sign up for a waiver @SecretaryZinke?»

Borrow a page from Senator Alexander's 2007 proposal, or Senator Jim DeMint's A-Plus bill, and allow states to negotiate broad waivers with the Secretary of Education to do things very differently.

Even if a state ultimately wins a waiver — a decision that rests with Secretary Duncan — the proposals reveal how much more work states have to do to fully usher in this new era of accountability.

The administration has also ignored red flags raised by peer review panels it has put in place to vet the submitted proposals — including concerns that states didn't present their proposals to American Indian tribes as required under both the waiver process (as well as under federal and state laws), and that D.C.'s plan for implementing Common Core reading and math standards was not «realistic and of high quality».

These issues, along with the fact that the Obama administration seems not to be paying attention to what is happening inside the states to which waivers have been granted, and has generally ignored concerns raised by its own peer review panels about waiver proposals, makes it hard for centrist Democrat reformers to make the case that the School Reformer - in - Chief is doing a credible job advancing reform.

Nine of the eleven waiver proposals, including Indiana's, would do away with these subgroups, creating instead a «super-subgroup» that requires a school to ensure the bottom 25 percent of its students make progress.