The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or
enacted all the proposals
within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed
changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as
from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).
The recent focus has been on
enacting measures
within the energy sector, which has become increasingly intertwined with climate
change from a regulatory perspective.