Sentences with phrase «waiver requests from»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was reported that Ole Miss, Patterson's former school, formally objected to a waiver request from the quarterback to play at Michigan in 2018.

Not exact matches

They plan to participate in a spectrum auction in late autumn and will request a waiver if the merger prevents the companies from participating.

Importers of such samples may apply for a waiver from the COLA requirements from TTB in the form of a letter request.

But if the NCAA denies his request for an eligibility waiver after his transfer from Ole Miss, it changes the focus on Michigan's quarterbacks competition.

It's AMC's policy if you are less than six MONTHS postpartum to request a waiver from your physician stating you are cleared to exercise prior to beginning our exercise program.

The letter opposes SNA's controversial request to Congress for waivers from and a rollback of healthy school nutrition standards.

Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver from complying with healthier school food standards.

The request from the waiver comes after state officials at the Department of Health in August and, more recently, last week sent letters to Holder and his top deputy asking for permission to import medical marijuana strains to New York.

Krumpter, who is currently ranked a captain and expected to become village police chief by early next year, received approval from the state Civil Service Commission at its October meeting for what is known as the Section 211 waiver, which was requested by the village through a formal application submitted on Aug. 21, commission spokesman Jian Paolucci said.

In March, the NYS Education Department requested a waiver from the federal law, allowing for developmentally appropriate testing standards for child with serious disabilities, and a second year of prep time for English Language Learners for children just starting to learn English.

The Chief of Staff was then supposed to have taken the matter up with Cabinet, which in the event of approval, would then request a waiver from the Public Procurement Authority to enable the government to sole - source the supply of vehicles.

«I know some people have suggested, «Well, we'll request a waiver from the Obama administration.»

The counties also believe a waiver request sought by the Governor's Medicaid Redesign Team from the federal government could also bring in more funds.

«I, as a New York City police officer, request that Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito refrain from attending my funeral services in the event that I am killed in the line of duty,» the waiver states.

The county has requested a waiver from the U.S. Agriculture Department's standards for organic dairy and beef cows, which require them to graze cows on pastures for at least 30 percent of their food intake for at least 120 days.

See this from Harkin's and Miller's letter to Arne Duncan about the waiver requests:

Parents could request a waiver from these requirements, but only after their child had spent 30 days in a sheltered English - immersion classroom and only if the parent personally visited the school.

Schools may submit requests for waivers from state rules and regulations, accompanied by a rationale for why such waivers are needed.

On January 2, 2014, Commissioner King announced that the United States Department of Education (USDE) had approved New York State's request for a waiver from Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provisions that currently require students who take Regents exams in mathematics when they are enrolled in seventh or eighth grade to also take the State mathematics assessment for that grade.

(Sec. 8013) The bill modifies application and reporting requirements for SEAs and LEAs to request waivers of statutory or regulatory requirements from ED.

New Jersey and Kentucky lawmakers requested waivers from ESSA testing regulations this summer.

As with NCLB, a state may request a waiver from the Secretary of Education for specific statutory or regulatory provisions under the ESSA.

«We figured a lot of school districts would be requesting waivers from the State Board of Education this year, and Stockton Unified School District is an expert in the process,» says Dayton.

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.

(Calif.) School districts requested less than 300 waivers last year from state education requirements, continuing a four - year trend, according to a new report from the California Department of Education.

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Education.

Twenty six districts requested waivers from this requirement and all were approved with conditions.

This past September the New York State Board of Regents requested a waiver from the requirements of the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA).

States would have an opportunity to request a waiver of the minimum threshold from the secretary of education if they could show that their districts had sufficient funding to meet the needs of all students.

Once fully built, the consortium seeks to request of the state department of education to apply for a federal waiver to enable the consortium to adopt the MCIEA model and be exempt from state testing except in «dipstick» grades.

In 2009 - 10, the pilot was replaced with a more expansive waiver opportunity that allows states to request a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education to approve identified districts or schools as SES providers.

The majority of these plans requested waivers from district and contractual requirements.

It's a process invoked by school districts across New Jersey only a few times each year, a request for a waiver from state regulations that gets into the minutia of school operations.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for school.

As states prepare to submit more applications for waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements, the U.S. Department of Education has released recommendations for strengthening their requests.

If a district would like to deviate from the common calendar for its winter or spring break, the district must obtain approval from the ISD and request a waiver from the Michigan Department of Education.

The waiver request was put together by superintendents from eight school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, who received guidance from the U.S. Department of Education and other third parties.

When the Obama administration rejected California's first application for a waiver in 2012, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said, «It is disappointing that our state's request — which enjoyed such strong support from parents, teachers, administrators, and education advocates across California — has been rejected.»

The rationale to request this amendment to the ESEA waiver is thatUtah can not produce defensible gap reduction data from Utah's CRT's to the new Utah SAGE assessment for the baseline year, and new targets must be set toward a six year trajectory.

But when asked whether Texas could request a waiver from federal accountability requirements, Morath stated that there was no precedent for that to his knowledge nor did he think one would likely be granted.

Texas Commissioner of Education Michael Williams met with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2013, about Texas» request for a waiver from certain provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act.

(Calif.) In a clear sign that California's economic recovery hasn't reached all communities, a small elementary school district deep in the Central Valley has requested a waiver from the education code restricting borrowing.

NYC DOE Request for Innovative Waiver for SETSS, Statement of Consultation with UFT and Letter from Randi Weingarten regarding consultation (2008)

With no tangible sign from Congress that relief in the form of an updated law will come any time soon, states from Missouri to Wisconsin are lining up to request waivers from the U.S. Department of Education as a means of getting around the statutes of No Child Left Behind.

«In our request for waivers from No Child Left Behind's broken system for evaluating schools, we advocate for accountability for results for all publicly funded schools,» he said.