Sentences with phrase «waivers from»

Some of the support can be ascribed to the fact that both Brown and the State Board of Education did not succumb to pressures from both the Obama administration and advocacy organizations to apply for waivers from the No Child Left Behind that would have required the state to link teacher evaluations to student test scores or other measures of «student academic growth.»

Mississippi and 44 other states adopted the more rigorous Common Core standards in 2010 after the Obama administration required tougher standards for those seeking state waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.

Currently, 33 states have received waivers from the NCLB mandates by promising to implement robust teacher evaluation.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has indicated states may be able to apply this fall for waivers from the law's requirements if they develop their own accountability systems.

Complaints like this compelled the secretary to announce his intention two weeks ago to offer states waivers from key NCLB requirements in exchange for a commitment to implement a separate set of administration - backed reforms.

Places that agree to make changes can receive waivers from the law's requirements — and ensure that the federal funds upon which many depend, including Title I, will continue to flow.

Some teachers needed waivers from principals to vary school policy (for example, to give comments rather than grades on interim assessments).

But now, with 34 states and the District of Columbia granted waivers from No Child Left Behind, some are relaxing or ignoring some of those requirements, potentially allowing low - performing students to fall through the cracks once again.

In June 2012, the U.S. Department of Education (USED) granted Virginia waivers from certain requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB).

More than 40 states have waivers from No Child left Behind.

That issue has become important to states awarded waivers from the U.S. Department of Education from NCLB requirements.

Indiana and the 25 other states granted waivers from certain requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law will still have to send student data to Washington, D.C., writes Sarah D. Sparks for Education Week:

Last week, we told you about Steve Barr's interest in starting pilot schools, which are small schools with under 500 kids that operate within the district but can also obtain waivers from labor agreements — the closest thing to an autonomous charter.

Some worry both the waivers from and the re-write of No Child Left Behind will dial back the government's commitment to help these under - served students.

Pilot Schools: Small schools with under 500 kids, they can also obtain waivers from labor agreements.

Another eight states received waivers from federal education requirements under the No Child Left Behind law.

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.

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.

President Obama outlined his criteria for states hoping to apply for waivers from some of No Child Left Behind's tougher provisions.

The Obama administration has already opened the door to major flexibility by issuing waivers from the NCLB law, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Thirty - nine states and the District of Columbia already have received waivers from some of the penalties of NCLB, along with flexibility to use some Title I money funded for low - income children.

Another five states will receive waivers from federal education mandates under No Child Left Behind, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, bringing the total number of waiver states to 24.

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

Minnesota is one of many states that has been granted waivers from the law.

Ujifusa is referring to the Obama Administration's waivers from the...

The state could still seek waivers from changes that board members don't like — but only after a plan is submitted.

After months of negotiations, seven California school districts have received a one - year extension of the waivers from the federal government exempting them from key provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in return for meeting a slew of new requirements.

To win federal Race to the Top grants or waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), most states adopted teacher and principal evaluation systems based heavily on student test scores.

California is not alone when it comes to wrestling with new accountability indicators as evidenced by the struggles of lawmakers and educators in several other states also undertaking reviews - some drawn in the wake of federal waivers from No Child Left Behind mandates.

Duncan has granted 43 states and seven California districts temporary waivers from NCLB's sanctions and given them the ability to create alternative school accountability plans.

In granting waivers from NCLB's requirements, the Obama administration further pushed a federal agenda that included Common Core standards and more reliable teacher evaluations.

The Obama administration also required that teacher evaluations be tied to student performance for states seeking waivers from the mandates of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and California as a result did not receive a waiver, although six districts, including LA Unified, did receive them.

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

The school leadership operates with broad local control, exemptions from District policies and some waivers from the teachers union contract, including the unique ability to replace staff at the end of each school year.

Last September, he all but required adoption of the Common Core or similar standards approved by state higher education officials if states want to receive federal waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.

Officials at the Indiana Department of Education welcomed the Obama administration's plan to offer states waivers from key portions of the No Child Left Behind law.

For the last three years, the Obama administration has given waivers from the law's most onerous conditions, including that every child in a school must be deemed proficient in reading and math by 2014.

«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 changes — some proposed and some already in effect — are also taking place as states consider the status of their waivers from certain portions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Education officials acknowledged the state's dire fiscal crisis and that layoffs would be necessary, but said waivers from mandates would help minimize job losses and impacts on students.

Two years later, the administration announced that states could get waivers from key parts of No Child Left Behind.

According to a recent article in the Washington Post, twenty - seven of thirty - three states that won waivers from NCLB have established different performance targets for different groups of students.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

It granted states waivers from the burdens of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- conditional on continued adherence to Common Core or a federally - approved alternative.

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

And waivers from the No Child Left Behind law have allowed states to «unlawfully» waive accountability requirements in exchange for adopting the Common Core.

-- Consumer and education groups said they want waivers from the federal requirement to be done on «a case - by - case basis.»

Increased state flexibility and experimentation with federal guidance under waivers from federal law, shifting to even greater state control of accountability systems design under the Every Student Succeeds Act

In 2011, the White House announced it would offer waivers from the law, but states that want them must agree to fulfill other requirements to evaluate teachers and schools.

It is being widely reported this morning that in September U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will publish criteria states will have to meet to be granted waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act.