SC may hold off use of test scores in evaluation?

Updated
On September 16, Alyson Klein of Politics K12 - Edweek published an blog on "Which NCLB Waiver States May Delay Using Test Scores in Teacher Evaluations?" In that day's version South Carolina was not mentioned other than as a state on the map at the bottom (the map is very helpful,

btw).
Then on September 17, the article showed as "UPDATED" and SC was listed here:

Seventeen states told Education Week that they are likely to ask for the flexibility, or were already planning to hold off on using test scores in evaluations, including: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah.

So the good news was that Dr. Zais is apparently thinking about applying for that additional flexibility.

But then on September 23, SC was moved to the "no-with an asterisk" category. "And South Carolina is a special case, in that the state uses multiple years of growth in student test scores."

So what could have been great news for SC educators is now back in limbo.  Keep sending those requests to Dr. Zais.

UPDATE: Dr. Zais did send in the request on October 2, 2014.