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California had applied for a waiver, but was rejected in January, in part because it did not include


U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan addresses the National cheap flight ticket canada School Board Association s Federal Relations Nedtwork Conference at the Hilton Washington Hotel January 28, 2013 in Washington, DC. Duncan faced a number cheap flight ticket canada of questions from conference attendees on issues including charter schools, unfunded mandates and reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind program.
The Los Angeles Unified School District and seven other California districts have been granted cheap flight ticket canada a waiver from some of the harsh requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal Department of Education announced on Tuesday.
Back of an envelope, this is between $60 and 80 million that will be able to be redirected straight to the schools and to the youth who get to work with their amazing and brilliant teachers who know them the best, said L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy.
cheap flight ticket canada Few schools are expected to meet that goal. Since 2011, the Obama Administration has been granting waivers to states if they agreed to certain reforms. The government has granted waivers to 39 states and the District of Columbia.
Tuesday cheap flight ticket canada s announcement marks the first and only time that the federal government granted the waiver to a stand-alone set of school districts. The waiver is good for one year, after which it ll go up for renewal.
We re not taking this on, because it s simple. We re taking it on, simply because it s the right thing to do for more than a million students that those districts collectively serve, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a conference cheap flight ticket canada call with members of the media.
California had applied for a waiver, but was rejected in January, in part because it did not include provisions to connect teacher evaluations with student standardized cheap flight ticket canada test scores. State officials said they would not reapply.
By approving this waiver, Secretary cheap flight ticket canada Duncan once again demonstrates how his rhetoric that educators be actively involved in education change is just that rhetoric, Dean Vogel, president of the California Teachers Association, said in a written statement. Not one of the local teachers associations in the eight school districts cheap flight ticket canada was included in the discussion or signed cheap flight ticket canada the waiver application.
Under the terms of the application, cheap flight ticket canada districts agreed to judge school performance based on several factors. Test scores will account for about a quarter of the evaluation. Other factors include graduation rates, suspensions, reclassification of English Language Learners and surveys of students, parents and staff.

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