Sentence examples for waivers plan from inspiring English sources
"While I appreciate some of the policies outlined in the secretary's waivers plan, I simply cannot support a process that grants the secretary of education sweeping authority to handpick winners and losers," said Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, who is chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
The waiver plan will cure several obvious shortcomings of the original law.
Senator Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who is chairman the Senate education committee, said he understood why Mr. Duncan was pursuing the waiver plan, since "it is undeniable that this Congress faces real challenges reaching bipartisan, bicameral agreement on anything".
When Mr. Duncan sketched an outline of the administration's waiver plan in June, Representative John Kline, the Minnesota Republican who is chairman of the House education committee, demanded that Mr. Duncan show by what legal authority he would override the federal law.
The waiver plan would allow states to be rated on student growth on math and reading tests instead of simply counting up the percentages of students who reach proficiency on those tests.
opposing the waiver plan.
pressed Duncan for specifics on his waiver plan.
The School Nutrition Association, meanwhile, remains committed to supporting the waiver plan, a spokesperson said after representatives met with officials from the White House and the USDA earlier this month.
While Duncan's waiver plan would give states more autonomy in education management, that independence comes with the attached strings of Duncan's favored reforms, to be announced soon.
Some believe that Duncan and Obama's Sept. 23 announcement of their waiver plan, during which they condemned Congress for failing to overhaul NCLB and offered a method to skirt Congressional approval, has prompted lawmakers to move to revamp the law.
Since Obama and Duncan announced the waiver plan without the consent of Congress, lawmakers have introduced several bills that would revise the federal education law that legislators will revisit in the coming weeks.
