Sentences with phrase «waivers from the state education»

On the Island, for example, 120 out of 124 public school districts obtained a time - extension waiver from the State Education Department.

90 % of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

Those who do not meet those requirements — like Klein and Black — need to get a waiver from the state Education Department.

Ninety percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

What about the fact that she still needs a waiver from the state Education Department because she doesn't have superintendent credentials?

90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

Because of that, she will need a waiver from the State Education Department; Mr. Klein, who had also been a media executive, was granted one when he took over, in 2002.

Not exact matches

All Chicago schools that have received a lunchtime waiver from the State Board of Education are high schools, except for Parker Elementary Community Academy, which opens at 8 a.m. Lunch is over by noon.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

She had no education background and Bloomberg had to ask for a waiver from state Department of Education Commissioner David Steiner in order to secureeducation background and Bloomberg had to ask for a waiver from state Department of Education Commissioner David Steiner in order to secureEducation Commissioner David Steiner in order to secure the job.

All candidates would have to meet state standards without a waiver from the state's Commissioner of Education.

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

Black, 66, has been under fire from several city officials who say that the Hearst chairman should not receive the state waiver she needs to get the job because of her lack of education experience.

Lawyers for the parents, who filed three separate lawsuits in Albany County Supreme Court this month, argued that State Education Commissioner David Steiner erred in granting Black a waiver from a requirement that she possess a master's degree — something they said he doesn't have the power to do.

Lawyers for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state Education Commissioner David Steiner say she has exceptional skills as a manager and leader and deserved a waiver from the usual requirements.

State law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted by SteState law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted by Stestate, which would be granted by Steiner.

Last week, 11 states applied for waivers from many of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's most onerous provisions.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school tureducation - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

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.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

Authors Paul Peterson and Peter Kaplan find that even though 37 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education as incentive to join the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) consortia and raise their standards in 2009, standards still declined in rigor in 26 states and D.C. between 2009 and 2011.

This got much easier recently when House Education Committee Chair John Kline and K - 12 Subcomittee Chair Todd Rokita introduced the Student Success Act, which bars the feds from offering grants or policy waivers contingent on a state» s use of certain curricula or adoption of certain assessment policies.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Obama administration characterizes its plan to offer states waivers from some provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) as a necessary response to glacial congressional progress on reauthorizing and revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (whose current version is NCLB).

So the Obama administration offered states a deal: it would grant states «waiver» relief from NCLB sanctions if they stuck with the program on education policy.

President Obama sparked much debate in Washington with his plan to grant states waivers from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), conditional on their willingness to embrace certain reform proposals sketched out in the administration's March 2010 proposal, «A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.»

Borrow a page from Senator Alexander's 2007 proposal, or Senator Jim DeMint's A-Plus bill, and allow states to negotiate broad waivers with the Secretary of Education to do things very differently.

Three cheers for California's governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind) that doesn't kowtow to Washington.

With presidential backing, Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, has announced that states can get a waiver from NCLB requirements should they agree to the Obama Administration's Race to the Top guidelines.

Showing the taste for power that has led Sen. Lamar Alexander to accuse him of thinking he runs a national school board, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week yanked Washington state's «waiver» from the No Child Left Behind Act.

That's the picture that emerged from an Education Week analysis of waiver proposals submitted last month to the U.S. Department of Education by 11 states, whose plans offer insight into what the next generation of state - led accountability looks like.

Aiming to spread its ideas as far and fast as possible, the education department eventually required all states seeking much - needed waivers from No Child Left Behind to adopt test - based evaluation systems.

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.

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.

Waivers were designed to give states a reprieve from the sanctions associated with No Child Left Behind, but they also pushed Obama education priorities that are unpopular with Republicans.

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.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it has accepted their waiver application and will treat it as they would an application from other states, with a formal review.

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

The federal Department of Education specified for the first time Tuesday what states would have to do to receive a waiver from giving state standardized tests next spring in the one - year transition to implementing the Common Core standards.

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.

Governor Hogan's original executive order — which the attorney general's office said he may not have had the authority to issue in the first place — established such limits, creating an unbroken summer break for Maryland public schools from June 15 to Labor Day, but also allowing the State Board of Education (to which the Governor appointed me and — so far — eight other members) to issue waivers to districts that present «compelling justification» for exceeding those limits.

For example, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claims that states have «dummied down» their standards yet at the same time, his department is giving states waivers to provide «relief» from the unrealistically ambitious expectations of NCLB.

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.

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.

«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.

So U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has offered to give out waivers to exempt states from meeting NCLB's accountability standards — and Indiana's going to apply for one.

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.

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.

(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 Eeducation requirements, continuing a four - year trend, according to a new report from the California Department of EducationEducation.

Last month the state received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education putting a condition on its waiver from No Child Left Behind requirements.

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