Duncan said that implementing the waivers will be a key part of his second-term agenda.
Harkin has told me he intends to reset the reauthorization process while he's still there, but as the folks at Politics K-12 note, that desire could "set up an interesting dynamic with the Obama administration," which is more focused on implementing the waivers it has issued from the law to 34 states and Washington, D.C.
In an interview Monday in the French newspaper Le Monde, he accused Europe of not behaving in a "sincere manner" with Turkey, citing the failure to implement the visa waiver on June 1.
BUT, states can propose (not automatically implement, because the waiver has to be approved), alternative ways to increase their workforce goals under TANF.
It simply doesn't force states that receive the waivers to implement the burdensome takeover models prescribed in the federal legislation," he said.
Federal courts rejected auto-industry challenges against the tougher state standards, but Bush's EPA rode to the rescue by denying California (and by extension its partner states) a federal waiver needed to implement the rules.
California's initiative does allow the state to "adopt rules and/or regulations to implement" the initiative, and to "seek any waivers of federal law, rule, and/or regulation necessary to implement" the initiative.
Duncan also essentially circumvented the thornier parts of George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind law by offering waivers to states that agreed to implement the administration's agenda.
"Should Congress enact a resolution of disapproval when it votes in September," Corker's aide added, "the president would be prevented from exercising his national security waiver authority to suspend congressional sanctions and fully implement the nuclear agreement".
In 2005, California sought a waiver from the E.P.A. that would allow it to implement the first regulation in the United States requiring reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from cars.
