But to be effective, a self-regulatory organization has to have the heft of a Congressional mandate behind it, he said, adding that any agency the S.E.C. can create without Congressional action can be disbanded just as easily, once the storm of controversy subsides.
Of course, the senatorial selection process in this case is ultimately dependent on the prudence of the acting Governor, upon whom it is incumbent -- though he himself an appointee be -- to ensure that there is a mandate behind the replacement.
President Barack Obama's new initiative, titled "Excellent Educators For All," seeks to ensure that states comply with the George W. Bush-era No Child Left Behind mandate by asking state officials to submit "comprehensive educator equity plans" that detail how states plan to put quality educators in classrooms with disadvantaged students.
Increasingly frail — he walked into Parliament with a cane — he won a second vote, as allowed by law, with a simple majority of 195 votes, hardly a mandate after the behind-closed-doors agreement among major factions that broke the impasse.
No Child Left Behind mandated annual math and reading tests for students in grades three through eight, as well as once during high school.
The proposed regulation would also mandate a child-left-behind warning, which could share electronics with the belt reminder.
The pressure intensified in 2002 with the enactment of the federal testing law No Child Left Behind, which mandated high-stakes standardized exams that were supposed to bring every child to "proficiency" by the year 2014.
But, he said, "what I object to and continue to object to is the federal department virtually coercing states into it" by requiring "college- and career-ready" standards to qualify for grants and waivers releasing states from the most onerous conditions of No Child Left Behind, which mandated that all students reach proficiency in math and reading by 2014.
Despite public battles over phonics, the federal government's Reading First programming and No Child Left Behind, which mandated standardized testing,, bending the flat results on reading tests has proven nearly impossible.
But the group had little involvement in the negotiations that turned accountability into No Child Left Behind, which mandated testing of all students in English and math and imposed a series of consequences based on those results.
For many, if not most, who would once have embraced it, the mandate is receding behind an effective paywall.
