Sentences with phrase «won federal waivers»

That's why Duncan announced in June that he was giving the 37 states plus the District of Columbia, which had won federal waivers from the most egregious mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, an extra year to implement teacher evaluations linked to new assessments that are supposed to be aligned to the new Common Core State Standards.

Feds offer new details about NCLB waiver flexibility SI&A Cabinet Report: With the Legislature creeping closer to deciding the fate of AB 5 — which would restructure teacher evaluations in California — there's new focus on the state also winning a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind mandates.

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LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy has expressed great enthusiasm for the 10 - district effort to win a so - called «waiver» from some aspects of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which sets accountability rules and governs the distribution of billions in education funding from Washington.

The Brown administration won a hard - fought waiver last year to set aside the test scores for federal accountability and is seeking similar relief this year.

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.

Sue Burr, executive director of the state board of education and Gov. Jerry Brown's educational policy adviser, said initial federal feedback on the bill suggested that chances of winning a waiver were «favorable... but would probably require additional guidelines or regulations.»

The state recently won a waiver from the federal government's No Child Left Behind Act to give it more flexibility in its school improvement plans.

The CORE districts, which include Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Ana, Sanger, Sacramento City, and Fresno, filed a separate application and were the only non-state-level educational agencies to win a federal Education Department waiver.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.