Sentences with phrase «waiver systems in»

We have tried using other electronic waiver systems in the past and none are as convenient as Waiver King.

The Education Trust also slammed the waiver system in a February report.

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The big dude does not get a waiver in our system.

G&F Systems will not waiver in its dedication to serve and assist our customers.

continue a system under which districts can obtain a waiver to serve some grain foods (breads, pastas, etc.) that are not «whole grain - rich,» if they can show hardship in meeting a 100 percent whole - grain rich standard;

Furthermore, if SNA's current request for school meal waiver language in the 2015 appropriations bill is successful, schools obtaining such waivers are very likely to return to the old system, causing harm to the produce industry.

New York committed to the evaluation system and to controversial Common Core learning standards under the federal Race to the Top grant and in waivers under the broad federal No Child Left Behind education law.

«The decision to reject the waiver application submitted by Mayor Bloomberg is a tremendous victory for the more than one million children in the New York City public school system,» he said.

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.

«He was instrumental in redesigning New York's Medicaid system to lower costs and help more residents, was invaluable with our efforts to secure the Medicaid waiver from the Obama administration that allowed the largest healthcare system transformation in the nation to continue, and greatly helped in our efforts to defeat punitive Republican federal legislation that would have devastated New York's healthcare network.

New York State's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place by Nov. 15, has essentially been put on hold as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

The state's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place November 15, has essentially been put on hold, as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.

Aimed at involving young scientists — particularly those travelling from countries in need of scientific strengthening — EMBL has a flexible system of financial assistance offering a wide range of fellowships, including Corporate Partnership Programme registration fee waivers and travel grants for courses and conferences.

Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act remains stalled in Congress, but the Obama administration continues to push ahead with big changes to the accountability system at its core, with more than half the states now having been approved for waivers from major mandates of the law.

The waivers require states to create teacher and principal evaluation systems that include student growth in «significant» part.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Critics also pointed out that the new accountability systems under the waivers may hide deficiencies in the performance of children in previously closely watched sub-groups and may weaken incentives to improve performance of those children.

Arne Duncan has also espoused the wisdom of looking at progress over time, yet his ESEA waiver rules require state accountability systems to take proficiency rates into account — those are expected to be the drivers in identifying «focus» and «priority» schools.

about mayoral control, non-educators running public school systems, Klein's legacy, and who Cathie Black was — and wasn't; we saw Steiner appoint an eight - member panel of experts to advise him on whether to grant a legally - required waiver to non-educator Black, Checker call the need for a waiver «antiquated,» the special panel recommend no waiver, polls showing New Yorkers opposing Black, a flurry of celebs — including Gloria Steinem and Whoopee Goldberg — weighing in to support her, Steiner losing sleep.

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.

In its NCLB waiver initiative, the administration matched the timeline for teacher and principal evaluation systems to that for Common Core: pilot in 2013 — 14 and implement in 2014 — 1In its NCLB waiver initiative, the administration matched the timeline for teacher and principal evaluation systems to that for Common Core: pilot in 2013 — 14 and implement in 2014 — 1in 2013 — 14 and implement in 2014 — 1in 2014 — 15.

And each of the 43 states to which the Obama administration has granted a waiver from No Child Left Behind is now in the process of implementing evaluation systems that employ multiple measures of classroom performance, including student achievement data.

But an initial reading of the department's guidance suggests it is sticking to these policies: «The Department will work with states that wish to amend (their federal) flexibility waiver... while still maintaining teacher and leader evaluation and support systems that include growth in student learning.»

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factor.

Under the American constitutional system, officials of the Executive branch should carry out the current law as it is, not engage in back - door legislating through conditional waivers.

As Anne Hyslop reported, the newly announced waiver guidelines now ask states for «a demonstration that a school may not receive the highest rating in the state's accountability system if there are significant achievement or graduation rate gaps in the school that are not closing.»

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

By the time the 2012 elections moved into full swing, the Obama administration was issuing waivers to states exempting them from the most punitive parts of NCLB in exchange for sketching out their own state plans for improving teacher quality, academic standards and creating better accountability systems.

The Obama administration's waiver system, put in place after NCLB's escalating sanctions became increasingly common, has led to uncertainty in many states, including Murray's home state of Washington, she said.

Moved in part by this report, Arne Duncan went on to use two tools at his disposal — Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers — to pressure states to reform their teacher evaluation systems and to include student test scores in these evaluations.

I would add that the new accountability systems under the waivers can all too easily hide deficiencies in the performance of children in previously closely watched sub-groups and may weaken incentives to improve performance of those children.

In particular, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top competitive grants and its waivers of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements, is putting pressure on states to incorporate student test scores as a significant component of any new teacher evaluation system.

Michigan could lose its waiver from federal No Child Left Behind requirements if the state legislature does not adopt proposed changes to the state's teacher evaluation system, U.S. Department of Education officials said in a report.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

The Department of Public Instruction developed the system — which identifies schools as «focus» and «priority» — to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which for the past decade has resulted in sanctions for certain schools.

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.

No one wants to see Indiana lose the waiver because it would mean going back to the rigid accountability system that was in place under No Child Left Behind.

Context: In the past two years, states have implemented sweeping reforms to their teacher evaluation systems in response to Race to the Top legislation and, more recently, NCLB waiverIn the past two years, states have implemented sweeping reforms to their teacher evaluation systems in response to Race to the Top legislation and, more recently, NCLB waiverin response to Race to the Top legislation and, more recently, NCLB waivers.

08/27/2013: LULAC joins 9 other civil rights organizations in releasing a white paper analyzing the Department of Education's ESEA Waiver system.

Data dashboards can help alleviate some of the shortcomings in accountability systems that have been in place in the wake of NCLB and the systems that states have implemented under waivers to that law.

So it isn't exactly shocking to see U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's move yesterday to issue a letter to state school superintendents in waiver states asking them to «incorporate, to a significant degree» more - accurate graduation rate data as part of the hodgepodge of new accountability systems approved under the waiver gambit.

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.

The proposal, which faces steep political hurdles, mirrors the Obama administration's NCLB waiver system but is a marked departure from the bipartisan measure that was approved by the education committee back in 2012.

He applied for a waiver to replace No Child Left Behind in Indiana with an A-F accountability system.

In exchange for the waivers, states had to develop their own school accountability systems based on college - and career - ready expectations and also develop teacher and principal evaluation systems, among other things.

He thinks that the lack of changes, ESEA reauthorization, implementing common core standards, and how schools use waivers all present difficulties, but in the end, if the system does not change or educators don't give their all, then the students will fail — which McClure says is the «biggest travesty of all.»

In a letter sent to the Education Department today, these groups express deep concerns about waiver implementation, from how graduation rates are factored into state accountability systems to how subgroups of at - risk students are being helped.

It has granted waivers to states such as Ohio and Oregon even when they haven't fully implemented accountability or teacher evaluation systems promised in their submissions.

What kind of standard is the U.S. Department of Education putting in place as part of its process for approving revamped teacher evaluation systems states are required to put in place in exchange for receiving a waiver?