NCLB, the country's sweeping education law which has been up for authorization since 2007, mandated regular standardized testing in reading and math and punished schools based on those scores.
Did you hear that the PATRIOT Act is up for re-authorization?
The program has been in place for over 20-years, has never been evaluated, and is up for re-authorization this year.
Obama used the White House speech to announce that he and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would roll back certain accountability requirements of NCLB, a decade-old bipartisan education law that has been up for re-authorization since 2007.
Since the law was up for re-authorization and revision, some in the House and Senate, as well as educators, are worried that the waivers will confuse the debate, and take the focus off of the major changes they believe need to be addressed in the re-writing of NCLB.
Today the board is facing a sort of medical crisis of its own: It's up for legislative re-authorization under the state's sunset rules.
Following procedure, Mr. Rodriguez dialed up for authorization and said, as he does every night: "Hello.
The debt ceiling is an authorization for all borrowing up to some limit (the ceiling).
Cantor was a supporter of the Export-Import Bank, which conservative groups including the Club for Growth want to abolish since they view it as more "crony capitalism". Cantor's loss paves the way for more Tea Party lawmakers to take shots at the agency; a fight over the bank is already shaping up for this fall, when its authorization expires.
Balancing the budget is basically illegal because over half the budget is pre-committed to entitlements that don't even come up for annual authorization.
In order to avoid conflicts of interest, the allocation of drugs was set up so that assessors employed by pharmaceutical companies were not asked to assess drugs for which their company is a marketing authorization holder.
