It is an old story: a good proposal lies dormant until the time is ripe. In this case, it has taken six years for a favorable regulatory environment and a new bureaucratic champion to emerge and push a long-stalled reform forward….
Tag Archives: nonregulatory guidance
Regulating the Good Old-Fashioned Way
February 15, 2012 – 8:00 am
In fulfillment of a government-wide requirement, the U.S. Department of Education has just issued its semi-annual regulatory agenda: one completed action, nothing whatever either pending or planned. Zip. Nada. Zilch. By my reckoning — and I have been at this…
Answer: “Essentially, Yes…”
July 5, 2011 – 4:06 pm
Thanks to that “essentially,” you know right away that the answer is really a “No” cloaked by a heap of obfuscation. The U.S. Department of Education tortured a straightforward “No” into a thoroughly hedged “Yes” in the nonregulatory guidance for…
Malleable Guidance
June 8, 2011 – 2:23 pm
At the lowest levels of federal policy, things get pretty malleable. What ED prohibits one year may be permitted the next, without any formal justification or reason for the reversal. I ran across a vivid example in my recent research…