Sentences with phrase «waiver request»

Even waiver requests from districts receiving special state funding to hire additional staff to reduce class sizes have been regularly granted.

But regardless of its contents, this application — and similar district - accountability waiver requests — should be denied for two reasons.

The United States Department of Education has approved New York States ESEA waiver request for the 2012 - 13 school year.

A recent Education Week analysis of waiver requests from thirty - four states found that only eight states — Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Oregon — set the same target for all students.

You can obtain a fee waiver request form online or by calling us at 1-877-892-4557.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA) has asked Congress to approve waiver requests for schools that are struggling to comply with federal nutrition regulations aimed at improving children's health.

Previous posts: District Waivers Worry State Education Chiefs; Deasy's Secret Mission to Washington; Duncan Rejects State Waiver Request.

The Education Department confirmed receipt of the FOIA request a week later, and granted the group's fee waiver request on January 12.

The student's credential will be reviewed, and if the criteria are met, the course requirements will be waived and the grades will be posted on the student's transcript as a Course Waiver (CW) once the course waiver request form is signed.

The move came even as California's long - shot waiver request seeking relief from federal performance mandates sat unresolved before U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan - now nearly six months since the application was made.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Education received the latest NCLB waiver requests from Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and West Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico and the Bureau of Indian Education.

Shea Patterson's waiver request took an «encouraging» step this past week, his lawyer says.

New York State judges have also volunteered to perform ceremonies for couples on the 24th and grant waiver requests for those hoping to bypass the state's 24 - hour marriage waiting period.

In addition, before this last - minute waiver request to lower the bar further, on November 29th a host of advocates wrote to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging her to ``

CORE ESEA flexibility waiver request [PowerPoint slides].

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.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan approved Maine and Pennsylvania's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver requests just in time for the start of the new school year.

While LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy says that a federal waiver from the law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) could free up $ 80 million for student and teacher support services for the district — without reducing school accountability — and the Obama Administration has begun reviewing the LAUSD waiver request, state education officials and now some Washington think tankers are expressing concerns.

The state is withdrawing a government waiver request that would allow undocumented immigrant adults to purchase (unsubsidized) health insurance on its Obamacare marketplace, Covered California.

Massachusetts has a Medicaid waiver requesting the ability to administer its own formulary in order to negotiate pricing beyond the current discount for the safety net program.

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Please contact John Robinson, superintendent of recreation with special needs or waiver requests at 847.506.7131.

The denial is unusual given that all past Californian waiver requests have been granted.

If hope has long since faded that the largely non-compliant waiver request would be accepted, state officials are instead moving quietly to do what they can to soften the impacts NCLB sanctions will have on a growing number of communities.

She's looked at the state's 90 page waiver request and the 500 - plus page attachment to the US Department of Education which asks for permission for Illinois to opt out of No Child Left Behind's Adequate Yearly Progress trap by proposing to add a bunch of new standardized tests and use them to label schools using a 5 - star rating system.

To date, two states (New Hampshire and New York) have submitted plans to the U.S. Dept. of Education that included waiver requests, and Florida «wrote its accountability plan in such a way that critics say it skirts the law.»

Additionally, policy experts «note that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has approved two plans — Connecticut and Tennessee — that are out of compliance with federal law but were submitted without waiver requests.»

Waiver requests typically take a couple of months to decide, officials said.

Arun Ramanathan of Oakland - based The Education Trust - West, who has reviewed waiver requests from four states, said the bill would fail in part because it does not require state standardized test scores to measure students» academic growth.

That denial prompted the group of 10 districts — known as the California Office to Reform Education (CORE)-- to submit its own waiver request.

Meanwhile, with three statesopenly defying NCLB's strictures and at least ten states preparing waiver requests, it looks like «states may have a mishmash of different accountability systems,» says Jennings, who expects «the vast majority of states» to apply for waivers by the time Duncan releases his regulations.

The federal Education Department has already received waiver requests from 11 states, and one of the conditions for getting a waiver is developing a new accountability plan.

More than a dozen waiver requests from local educational agencies had to be set aside at last month's meeting of the California State Board of Education after the loss of a quorum but most are coming back as part of the board's special session next week.

It is unclear whether US ED will decide on California's waiver request before or after it has approved the state plan.

QEIA waiver requests were approved for three schools in the Anaheim Union High School District, two schools in the Dinuba Unified School District and one each in Caruthers Unified and Pond Union Elementary school district.

We recommended the Department address this problem by either granting existing grantees general waivers to pursue activities allowed under the new CSP State Entity program or by creating an expedited process to review and approve specific waiver requests.

With another month passing and the first day of school just two weeks away, the No Child Left Behind waiver request from LAUSD and eight other California school districts remains unfinished.

Despite the study's results, the EPA has stood fast in its decision to reject California's emissions waiver request; presumably they expect the lax federal standards to help resolve L.A.'s smog woes.

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«The FAA's willingness to approve reasonable waiver requests is a strong step in the right direction as we seek to bring the benefits of commercial drones to the American people.»