Connecticut monitors state-owned beaches and provides free laboratory testing to municipalities, which are responsible for monitoring their own beaches.
The Central Vigilance Commission, a government agency that monitors state corruption, estimated that between $1.1 billion and $1.8 billion had been misappropriated.
But Kathy Christie, vice president of the Education Commission of the States, who monitors state education policies, said Mr. Schundler's assumptions were highly speculative.
The Inter-American Comminsion, based in Washington, D.C., monitors state members' compliance with the Convention.
"It's a really historic recession," said Michael Leachman, director of state fiscal research at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which closely monitors state budgets.
Seven such requests from California tribes are now before federal officials, according to gambling critic Cheryl Schmit, director of Stand Up California, which monitors state gambling issues.
At present, it adds "there is no formal monitoring mechanism, although the Foreign Office said that its embassies informally monitored states' progress".
An ABC News release about its coverage promised a team of reporters, "led by Dan Harris, who will monitor states for voting discrepancies and irregularities".
Civil rights groups said they would monitor states to make sure they were not watering down expectations for minority groups or poor students.
The right graph in Figure 6 shows allowance rates in strictly monitored states.
