Sentences with phrase «who requested a waiver»

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Reacting to the decision, the Very Rev Dr John Chalmers, Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: «We are grateful to the Home Office who have heard our request and granted a visa waiver enabling the Rev Rola Sleiman to travel and join us at the General Assembly in Edinburgh.

I feel I have every right to assist the many SNA members who do not agree with their leadership's request for waivers and nutritional roll - backs.

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.

Still, outraged critics, including a group of thirteen City Councilmemebers who gathered outside City Hall on Wednesday, continued to fight Black's appointment, calling on the Education Department to deny Bloomberg's request for a waiver, the news station reported.

In a letter to Congressmembers Lowey, Engel and Maloney, and Senators Schumer and Gillbrand, Latimer wrote: «It has recently been brought to my attention that the United States Department of Education denied the request of the New York State Education Department to provide a waiver which would allow our schools to better meet the needs of children with disabilities and those who are English Language Learners.»

He has boasted that state waiver requests «capture» tens of thousands more students by using lower thresholds for the number of students who count toward accountability.

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.

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.

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.

Plainfield's waiver request would apply only to K - 5 students, who would get PE two times a week with a licensed physical education teacher for 35 minutes each day across the district's 17 elementary schools.

«Counting the scores of students who are non-low-income and non-minority is likely to interfere with identifying the lowest performing schools and student groups,» the waiver request states.

The 27 waiver requests will soon be posted online along with the names of the peer reviewers who will convene this month to review them.

Meanwhile, with three statesopenly defying NCLB's strictures and at least ten states preparing waiver requests, it looks like «states may have a mishmash of different accountability systems,» says Jennings, who expects «the vast majority of states» to apply for waivers by the time Duncan releases his regulations.

The only way for a bilingual education program to be offered in place of structured English immersion was through waivers signed by parents requesting bilingual education for students who either (1) were already English proficient, (2) were at least 10 years old, or (3) had special needs identified after having participated in structured English immersion for at least 30 days.

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The Tribunal will decide who qualifies for a fee waiver based on the financial information provided with the request.

Students who have a current and valid CDA Credential, awarded by the Council for Professional Recognition, and are enrolled in the Early Childhood Education Associate's degree, Early Childhood Education Diploma, or Early Childhood Education Certificate may request a waiver from Foundations of Child Development; Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Instruction; and Health, Safety and Nutrition / CDA Application.

Prior to Aug. 24, 2016, those who missed the deadline had to write a letter to the IRS requesting a waiver.