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The Obama administration began granting states waivers from the law in September 2011.

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According to the state Retirement and Social Security Law, which was last amended in 2008, in order to receive approval for a section 211 waiver from the state's three - member Civil Service commission, a jurisdiction must demonstrate «an urgent need for his or her services» because of «an unplanned, unpredictable, unexpected vacancy and sufficient time is not available to recruit a qualified individual.»

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 GOP's proposed law would prevent individuals from using that waiver to run for office in Nassau.

Earlier this year, the Freelancers persuaded the state Legislature and Gov. Cuomo to approve a law granting the group a waiver from enrolling in the new national health - insurance program.

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, which are now in place in 42 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, allow states to get out from under many of the mandates of the NCLB law in exchange for embracing certain education redesign priorities.

He established a waiver process that effectively allowed two - thirds of the states to deviate from various requirements of the law — most prominently the requirement that all students be proficient in math and reading by the end of this year.

It is hard to see what else the administration could have done, given the failure of Congress to make corrections itself, the manifest impossibility of carrying on with the law as written, and the protest that would have come from Democrats in Congress and the army of education reformers if the administration had simply settled for waivers.

Eventually, 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were granted waivers from NCLB, in effect gutting the federal law.

Yes, under NCLB's waiver authority, the Secretary has a lot of room to maneuver in terms of letting states and districts escape from onerous parts of the law.

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.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has made awarding waivers from certain onerous provisions of the No Child Left Behind law contingent on states evaluating teachers in a manner he judges acceptable.

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.

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

Nine California districts resubmitted their application Tuesday for a waiver from key provisions and sanctions of the No Child Left Behind law after spending weeks revising the application in response to dozens of questions by a panel of reviewers from the U.S. Department of Education.

Faced with intense opposition from teachers, Sacramento City Unified announced Wednesday it would not join other California districts in reapplying for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

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.

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.

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.

Since awarding more than 40 NCLB waivers, this marks the first time the department has ever labeled states» escape from some onerous components of the law as being in trouble.

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.

The waivers freed the states from some of the law's toughest requirements, including that schools prepare every student to be proficient in math and reading by 2014 or risk escalating sanctions.

In September, California Gov. Jerry Brown resisted Duncan's threat to withhold $ 7.3 billion in federal funding if he signed into law Assembly Bill 484, which effectively eviscerates accountability (and gets around the administration's decision to not grant the Golden State a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized testIn September, California Gov. Jerry Brown resisted Duncan's threat to withhold $ 7.3 billion in federal funding if he signed into law Assembly Bill 484, which effectively eviscerates accountability (and gets around the administration's decision to not grant the Golden State a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized testin federal funding if he signed into law Assembly Bill 484, which effectively eviscerates accountability (and gets around the administration's decision to not grant the Golden State a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized tests.

The Obama administration has awarded waivers in order to free states and the District from punitive aspects of the federal law, which was supposed to be rewritten by Congress four years ago and is increasingly seen as outdated and unworkable.

Although the board approved applying for a waiver from some parts of the federal law known as the No Child Left Behind Act, this was not the same waiver that the board had approved in 2012.

Wisconsin receives waiver from federal No Child Left Behind law, ending an era in which schools and districts were penalized for not meeting «adequate yearly progress» on state tests.

Madison teachers union president Mike Lipp publicly embraced the new teacher evaluations mandated under the state's waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, saying feedback is useful and Madison school administrators haven't always been good about evaluating staff in the past.

In August, Oklahoma became the second state to lose a waiver from the 2001 law, which mandated standardized testing and set annual growth goals called Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

In TCTA's view, not only do these provisions exceed the parameters of current Texas law, particularly with regard to locally - developed teacher appraisal systems, but they are a holdover from Texas's ESEA waiver requirements, which are now null and void.

The state was required to issue the report cards this year in order to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

As reported yesterday in LA School Report, LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy and others are in Washington today, making a final push to persuade the Obama Education Department to approve its revised application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 federal education law.

A system must be in place by the 2014 - 15 school year for Wisconsin to qualify for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Duncan started giving state waivers from NCLB in 2011, after a deeply divided Congress could not agree on changes to reauthorize the law.

And the state recently refused to include a teacher evaluation system based on student test scores in its application for a waiver from the mandates of No Child Left Behind laws.

Independent charters are not included in the California Office of Reform Education (CORE)'s statistics, because CORE's system was developed as part of a waiver its districts received from the federal government relieving them of some of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.

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.

The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

Former superintendent John Deasy, who resigned on Oct. 16 amid controversy over billion - dollar technology blunders, had declared a ban on the law this past August, claiming the law didn't apply to Los Angeles Unified because the district had received a federal waiver exempting it from No Child Left Behind improvement goals in the temporary absence of statewide tests.

Former Superintendent John Deasy had argued that the district was exempt from the Parent Trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law, allowing LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

In 2011, it started granting waivers to states to free them from the more onerous requirements of the law in exchange for embracing Obama's policies, such as evaluating teachers in part based on student test scoreIn 2011, it started granting waivers to states to free them from the more onerous requirements of the law in exchange for embracing Obama's policies, such as evaluating teachers in part based on student test scorein exchange for embracing Obama's policies, such as evaluating teachers in part based on student test scorein part based on student test scores.

Pushback against the strong federal role, goals perceived as unrealistic, and other perceived flaws in the law resulted in a migration to increased state flexibility and experimentation — with federally established principles and state - driven policies for achieving them governed by waivers from federal law.

Federal policy also has reflected much of this change, with the U.S. Department of Education providing options for states to seek waivers from some of the dated NCLB requirements (in light of delays in Congressional reauthorization of that law), in an effort to promote innovation toward satisfaction of the rigorous kinds of standards established by the common core state standards.

In a letter from a district lawyer to former state Sen. Gloria Romero obtained by The Times on Thursday, officials said the school system is not subject to the «parent trigger» law because it obtained a waiver last year from federal educational requirements that are linked to it.

In a letter last year, a U.S. Department of Education official told Deasy the federal waiver did not exempt L.A. Unified from identifying schools for improvement, corrective action or restructuring, and did not affect any related state laws.

When President Obama announced a plan in September to allow states to apply for waivers from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, he took a shot at Congress.

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.

With reauthorization of the law caught up in congressional deadlock, that's prompted Duncan to offer to issue waivers to states from NCLB's provisions.