Sentences with phrase «year waiver so»

On Nov. 8, 2007, an Ag & Market official asked for a one - year waiver so that the fair could hire Live Nation in 2008 without seeking competitive bids.

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So last week she signed a special waiver protecting the university from liability, and she officially rejoined the team for her remaining two years of eligibility.

The waiver wire is the draft order from the previous year, so the Bears would get third choice on players waived.

The city's argument is in part based on a ruling from the city's Conflict of Interests Board that granted waivers to two de Blasio advisers to continue working with the mayor after leaving City Hall to go work for Hilltop, which ran the Campaign for One New York and associated groups, despite a one - year ban on doing so.

For instance, Council members last year approved more waivers of fees so residents could hold block parties (80) than they introduced resolutions on city issues (77).

So that year, the Obama administration offered states a reprieve from many of the law's mandates through a series of waivers.

As of August 1 this year, NCLB is dead, and, so are any waivers issued under NCLB.

Gates and his foundation have been pushing the use of student achievement data (ie, test scores) in teacher evaluations for several years now — as has the Obama administration, which has made it a key part of both Race to the Top and the so - called «waivers» from No Child Left Behind.

Because Washington first made that commitment in its waiver application of February 27, 2012, and Washington was unable to take the steps necessary to fulfill that commitment even after having been given an additional school year (2012 — 2013) to do so, it was placed on high - risk status on August 14, 2013.

«The state has granted waivers so that TNReady scores aren't required to be counted in student grades for this year,» said Lyn Hoyt, president of Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence (TREE).

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy said in an interview that the metrics used by LA Unified and the other districts granted the waiver still give parents the right to use the Parent Trigger law, so long as a school has been deemed in need of improvement for two consecutive years, ending with the 2014 - 2015 school year.

Also on Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee reported out a bill (SB 889) to eliminate the requirement that prospective teachers pass a basic skills exam (currently the SAT) before beginning their teacher preparation curriculum, then took testimony on a bill (SB 885) that would make pre-Labor Day start waivers permanent so that districts who had received waivers would not have to reapply each year.

The fact that school reformers and others such Charlie Barone of Democrats For Education Reform, Andy Rotherham, and the Center on Education Progress proved that Duncan's estimates were nothing but smoke didn't dissuade the administration from granting waivers to 33 states and the District of Columbia so far this year.

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy and other CORE officials traveled to Washington for talks so the waiver could be ready before the start of the upcoming school year.

Q: The waiver frees Local Education Agencies from the so - called Highly Qualified Teacher requirements of NCLB, and from having to develop «Improvement Plans» for not meeting requirements for 2 consecutive years.

Traditionally, classes in Virginia schools start the day after Labor Day, but Prince William and some other districts got a waiver to start early because it tallied so many snow days during the past few years.

As Dropout Nation has reported over the past year, the Obama waiver gambit is already allowing 37 states and the District of Columbia to ignore poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of districts and schools in helping each and all kids.

What they need, at minimum, is a one - year waiver from federal testing requirements so that instead of wasting this school year administering the same old damaging and worthless high - stakes tests, they start planning for the future.

The department has indicated it will accept and review NCLB waiver applications on a rolling basis throughout this school year, giving Texas and the other holdout states plenty of time to develop and submit waiver plans if they so choose.

Chances are that Harkin is merely holding the hearing to put pressure on the Obama administration to grant his home state of Iowa a waiver after deciding not to do so last year.

In 2014, the teachers union in San Jose tried to do this, and asked the California state board of education for a waiver so they could extend their probationary period to three years.

Teachers certified in PR have the same rights as teachers who come to Texas certified from other states so they are granted a one year waiver from the state test requirements.

The Adviser may continue the waiver and / orreimbursement from year to year, but there is no guarantee that the Adviser will do so and the waiver and / or reimbursement may be cancelled or modified at any time after October 31, 2018.

Although authorized users don't get their own fee waiver on this card, the waiver is available every four years, so you can potentially use it down the line to get Global Entry or TSA PreCheck for someone else if you'd like.

Money market fee waivers decreased in the quarter, and are lower so far this year than last.

The company said that the 6 % increase in sales so far this year is primarily due to the decrease in fee waivers.

The Adviser may continue the waiver and / or reimbursement from year to year, but there is no guarantee that the Adviser will do so and the waiver and / or reimbursement may be cancelled or modified at any time after October 31, 2018.

The counselor negotiates with all the concerned lenders to reduce interest rates being currently paid, waiver of late payment fees as also the amount of the monthly installment so that the entire debt is paid off within three to five years.

«Plaintiff's failure to comply with that order, despite having years to do so, is tantamount to waiver of this issue.»

If you were previously licensed and pass a supplemental examination within your Education Requalification Waiver period, you are eligible to apply for a representative's licence to provide both services so long as you passed the supplemental examination no longer than 1 year before the date of the application.