Language Assistance 
These are ED responses to State requests for waivers from requirements under Title I, II, or III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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Waivers
PDF (1,098k) August 14, 2009 PDF (451k) September 16, 2009 PDF (863k) August 10, 2010 PDF (86k) February 19, 2019
PDF (1.2K) August 13, 2009 PDF (493K) September 16, 2009 PDF (493K) June 16, 2010 PDF (50KB) Alaska request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for all subjects in 2015-16 (November 17, 2016)
PDF (42K) August 24, 2009 PDF (1.1K) September, 16, 2009 PDF (1.1K) June 14, 2010 PDF (360K) August 4, 2010 PDF (53KB) Arizona request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (March 29, 2018) PDF (370KB) Denial of Arizona request for waiver from statewide high school assessment requirements 2018-19 (March 29, 2019)
PDF (882K) October 23, 2009 Letter May 17, 2011 PDF (147K) Arkansas request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (March 20, 2018) PDF Arkansas request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (March 4, 2019)
Letter (HTML) Approval Letter for Miccosukee Indian School AYP Request (May 27, 2015) PDF (184 KB) Miccosukee Indian School, Consolidated State Application Accountability Workbook (June 5, 2015) PDF (88 KB) Approval Letter for Navajo Nation School Alternative Accountability Request (September 20, 2016) PDF (17 MB) Navajo DSAP Accountability Plan (June 14, 2016)
PDF (70 KB) Navajo Extension Letter SY 17-18 (September 8, 2017) PDF (65 KB) Navajo Extension Letter SY 18-19 (November 20, 2018)
PDF (446K) October 23, 2009 PDF (563K) November 6, 2009 PDF (845K) December 11, 2009 PDF (645K) July 25, 2011 PDF (4522K) Request for waivers from 9 local educational agencies WORD (645K) Secretary's approval letters for request for waiver from local educational agencies (August 6, 2013)
Related documents:
PDF Double Testing Waiver (March 4, 2014) Approved Waiver Extension Request (September 12, 2014) Approved Renewal Request for Waivers from Local Education Agencies (September 25, 2015) Approval letter for Request for Renewal of Waivers from Local Education Agencies (September 25, 2015) Denial of Science Assessment Waiver (January 18, 2017) California request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2016-17 (August 16, 2017) California request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for all subjects in the North Park Elementary School and Pacific Valley K-12 School for the 2016-2017 school year (March 9, 2018) Denial of California request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for all subjects in the Piner Olivet USD and Santa Rose City Schools for the 2017-2018 school year (September 24, 2018)
Denial of California request regarding English learners in the State’s accountability system (October 9, 2018) California Department of Education’s (CDE’s) request on behalf of Paradise Unified School District (PUSD), to waive certain statewide academic standards and assessment requirements under the ESSA for 2018-19 (May 16, 2019) Other Related Documents
PDF (1.1K) August 11, 2009
PDF (981K) September 11, 2009 PDF (51KB) Connecticut request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2017-18 (October 13, 2017)
PDF (981K) February 4, 2010 PDF Delaware request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2017-18 (February 23, 2018) PDF Delaware request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (February 28, 2018) PDF Delaware request for an extension of a waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (March 4, 2019)
PDF (1007K) October 15, 2009
PDF Request for a waiver to permit middle school students who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessments (October 5, 2018) PDF
District of Columbia request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (March 22, 2019)
PDF (1050K) September 23, 2009 PDF (432K) August 3, 2010
PDF (99K) August 13, 2009 PDF (171KB) Georgia request for a waiver to permit middle school students who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessments (April 12, 2018) PDF (147KB) Georgia request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (April 12, 2018) PDF (163KB) Georgia extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (April 15, 2019)
PDF (314K) November 2, 2009Native Hawaiian Language Assessment Waiver response [PDF, 166 KB]
(December 1, 2017)
PDF (53KB) Hawaii request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (March 29, 2018) PDF (41KB) Denial of Hawaii request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for grade 7 and 8 mathematics and grade 8 science in 2018-19 (March 20, 2019) PDF(142KB) Hawaii extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (July 23, 2019)
PDF (1291K) October 15, 2009 PDF (1291K) June 30, 2010 PDF (148K) Idaho request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (May 7, 2018) PDF (163K) Idaho request for an extension of the waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (January 3, 2019)
PDF (472K) September 16, 2009 PDF (692K) September 16, 2009 PDF (131K) Waiver approval for Lincoln-Way Community District 210 (December 28, 2017) PDF (262K) Request for a waiver to permit middle school students who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessments (October 5, 2018)
PDF (917K) September 23, 2009 PDF (280K) October 23, 2009 PDF (280K) July 2, 2010
PDF (159K) Indiana request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (February 15, 2018) PDF (170 KB) Denial of Indiana request for waiver related to the adjusted-cohort graduation rate calculation (April 19, 2018) PDF (160 KB) Indiana extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (April 15, 2019)
PDF (1.1K) August 31, 2009 PDF (1.1K) August 3, 2010 HTML (February 12, 2014)
PDF (816K) April 6, 2010 PDF (816K) April 5, 2011 Letter May 17, 2011
PDF (1.3K) September 4, 2009 PDF (55K) Kentucky request for waiver from requirements to assess full breadth and depth of academic content standards in reading/language arts, specifically standards in speaking and listening (December 13, 2016) PDF (48K) Kentucky request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (October 27, 2017) PDF (75K) Kentucky request for an extension of a waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (January 31, 2019)
PDF (1,103K) August 27, 2009
PDF Louisiana request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (50.3KB) (February 28, 2018) PDF Louisiana request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (50.7KB) (January 15, 2019)
PDF (1.1MB)September 16, 2009 PDF (135K) Maine request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (April 12, 2018)
PDF (436K) November 2, 2009 PDF (140KB) Maryland request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in grades 5, 8 in 2016-17 and high school in 2017-18 (May 22, 2018) PDF (53K) Maryland request for a waiver to permit middle school students who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessments (June 14, 2018) PDF (140KB) Denial of Maryland resubmitted request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in grades 5, 8 in 2016-17 (July 10, 2018)
PDF (1.2MB) August 24, 2009 PDF (374K) July 19, 2010 PDF (152K) Massachusetts request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (December 28, 2017) PDF (178K) Massachusetts request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (February 25, 2019)
PDF (1.22K) September 26, 2009 PDF Michigan request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (May 14, 2018) PDF Denial of Michigan request related to assessing all students on the same statewide assessments (July 30, 2018) PDF Denial of Michigan’s request to exclude the results of recently arrived English learners in the State accountability system (January 29, 2019) PDF Michigan extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (April 12, 2019)
PDF (875K) January 19, 2010
PDF (99K) May 10, 2010 PDF Mississippi request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (March 5, 2018) PDF (139KB) Mississippi extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (June 19, 2019)
PDF (92K) August 7, 2009 PDF (290K) August 10, 2010 PDF June 13, 2011 PDF (173K) Missouri request for a waiver to permit middle school students who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessments (December 21, 2017) PDF (148K) Missouri request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements in 2016-17 (March 20, 2018) PDF (147K) Missouri request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (April 3, 2018) PDF (67K) Denial of Missouri request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2017-18 (July 27, 2018)
PDF (91K) June 23, 2010 PDF (81K) July 26, 2010
PDF (1088K) August 26, 2009 PDF (480K) July 12, 2010 PDF (46KB) Nebraska request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment (March 29, 2018) PDF (71KB) Nebraska request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment (February 19, 2019)PDF (143KB) Denial of Nebraska request to waive reporting certain teacher data on state and local report cards (May 15, 2019)PDF (134K) Nebraska request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2019-20 (May 15, 2019)
PDF (881K) October 8, 2009 PDF June 15, 2010 (79K)
PDF (1.2MB) September 23, 2009 PDF (249K) August 4, 2010 Letter June 29, 2011 PDF (167KB) Denial of New Hampshire request for waiver from annual statewide assessments (May 31, 2018)
PDF (621K) October 2, 2009 PDF (175K) New Jersey request for a waiver to permit middle school students who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessments (December 21, 2017) PDF (152K) Denial of New Jersey request for waiver to reclassify English learners in the four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rate (April 12, 2018) PDF (146KB) New Jersey request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2017-18 (May 10, 2018) PDF (152KB) Denial of New Jersey resubmitted request for waiver to reclassify English learners in the four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rate (June 25, 2018) PDF (143KB) Denial of New Jersey request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (August 3, 2018) PDF (55KB) Final Response to New Jersey’s request for waiver to reclassify English learners in the four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rate (November 28, 2018)
PDF (1.22K) August 31, 2009 PDF (372K) August 4, 2010 PDF (132KB) New Mexico request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2019-20 (April 16, 2019)
PDF (977K) March 3, 2010 PDF (439K) August 24, 2010 PDF (172K) New York request for a waiver to permit middle school student who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessment (January 16, 2018) PDF (133K) Denial of New York’s request to assess children with disabilities with an out-of-grade-level assessment (January 16, 2018) PDF (206K) Denial of New York’s request to exclude the results of recently arrived English learners in the State accountability system until they have been enrolled in U.S. schools for 3 years (January 16, 2018)
PDF (91K) September 4, 2009 PDF (621K) September 16, 2009HTML August 29, 2011
PDF (51K) North Carolina request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (May 10, 2018) PDF (137K) North Carolina extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (May 2, 2019)
PDF (92K) October 2, 2009 PDF (92K) June 15, 2010 HTML March 23, 2015 HTML June 5, 2015 PDF (154K) Response to request to waive locally selected, nationally recognized assessment requirements (January 29, 2018) PDF (49KB) North Dakota request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (May 10, 2018)
PDF (1.9K) August 14, 2009 PDF (380K) July 20, 2010 PDF (173K) Ohio request for a waiver to permit middle school student who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessment (January 16, 2018) PDF (152K) Ohio request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (March 13, 2018) PDF (75K) Ohio request for an extension of a waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (February 12, 2019)
PDF (1.2MB) October 15, 2009
PDF (78K) June 15, 2010 PDF (50K) Oklahoma request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (May 15, 2018) PDF (167KB)
Oklahoma extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (April 15, 2019)
PDF (1,010K) October 23, 2009
PDF (1.0MB) August 27, 2009 PDF (220K) August 3, 2010
PDF (140K) Pennsylvania request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (February 15, 2018)
PDF (175K) Puerto Rico request due to the impact of hurricanes Irma and Maria (October 10, 2018)
PDF (1.0MB) August 24, 2009 PDF (1.0MB) June 16, 2010 PDF (148K) Rhode Island request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2017-18 (March 16, 2018) PDF (189K) Rhode Island request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (March 22, 2019)
PDF (1340K) September 9, 2009
PDF (992K) August 14, 2009 PDF (992K) June 16, 2010 PDF (148K) South Dakota request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (April 12, 2018) PDF (145K) South Dakota extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (June 28, 2019)
PDF (300K) August 27, 2009 PDF (92K) September 16, 2009 PDF (484K) August 10, 2010 PDF (484K) Tennessee request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for all subjects in 2015-16 (November 17, 2016) PDF (147K) Tennessee request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (April 12, 2018) PDF (57K) Tennessee request for Title I waiver for five new LEAs (August 1, 2018) PDF (242K) Tennessee request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements for science in 2018-19 (February 4, 2019) PDF (89K) Denial of Tennessee request to waiver minimum subgrant amount in Title III, Part A (February 5, 2019) PDF (145K) Tennessee extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (May 17, 2019)
PDF (298K) Response to Texas waiver request for Hurricane relief (February 8, 2018) PDF (50KB) Texas request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (March 29, 2018) PDF (134KB) Denial of Texas request related to the English language proficiency assessment and accountability (July 31, 2018) PDF (177KB) Texas extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (April 1, 2019)
PDF (121KB) Denial of Texas request for a waiver to permit middle school student who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessment (August 26, 2019)
PDF (485K) September 16, 2009 PDF (874K) October 15, 2009 PDF (867K) January 19, 2010 PDF (136KB) Denial of Utah’s request to waive the participation rate requirement in its accountability system (May 31, 2018)
PDF (521K) September 4, 2009 PDF (789K) September 16, 2009 PDF (79K) October 2, 2009 PDF (511K) August 4, 2010 PDF (66K) Virginia request or a waiver to permit middle school students who take advanced courses to take the aligned high school assessments (August 6, 2018) PDF (168KB) Denial of Virginia request for waiver from administering the same assessment to all students in high school (December 26, 2018)
PDF (852K) August 13, 2009 PDF (791K) August 31, 2009 PDF (791K) June 30, 2010 Letter June 29, 2010 PDF Denial of Washington request for waiver from statewide assessment requirements in eight tribal compact schools (April 15, 2019)
PDF (532K) August 24, 2009 PDF (689K) September 23, 2009 PDF (148K) West Virginia request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (April 12, 2018) PDF (154K) West Virginia waiver of ESEA section 1113(c)(1) for Wetzel County (August 30, 2018) PDF (193K) West Virginia extension request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2018-19 (April 1, 2019)
PDF (1.2K) August 13, 2009 PDF (235K) August 10, 2010 PDF (73K) Wisconsin request for waiver of the one percent cap on participation in the alternate assessment for 2017-18 (February 23, 2018)
PDF (1.3K) September 16, 2009Back to Map
