authorizer
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authorizers
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D.C. has, as Mathematica researchers noted, a strong educational system with mayoral control, an independent charter authorizer and a unified enrollment process.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2021
With the entry of Erskine College as a new charter authorizer, we are expanding choice across the state.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2018
In addition to serving as authorizer for the tribal school, Bay Mills Community College began authorizing other schools around the state.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
Michigan allows the schools to be chartered by a variety of institutions, including public universities, which run most of the schools, instead of making school districts the sole authorizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2016
They can distinctly pray for the head, author, authorizer and prime supporter, of abjured Prelacy and Prelates, that God would bless him in his government, and yet not pray for the Prelates themselves.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery
They are why the Senate passed, 77-20, a National Defense Authorization Act delivering $32 billion above the OMB request and on top of the money authorizers included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
In fact, in the vast majority of states, higher-education authorizers don’t require colleges to report plans for such programs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
School districts can apply to be charter-school authorizers, he wrote, and schools are authorized by the statewide Commission on Charter Schools, which includes elected officials like the state superintendent.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2017
Added Brookings’ Kamarck: “These guys come in thinking they have one boss, but in fact they have two bosses. They have Congress — the authorizers and the appropriators — and they have the president.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2016
Effective authorizers should be able to attract high-quality schools and hold their leaders accountable without resorting to duplicative bureaucratic paperwork and regulations.
From US News ● Oct. 6, 2016
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