With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, controversies around angry school board meetings, and the upcoming midterm elections, the United States is in for an eventful year in education policy. Scholars from the Brown Center on Education Policy identify the stories they’ll be following in 2022. 

In the world of financial regulation, an advantage of the board structure is encouraging consensus-driven policy subject to majority rule, while an advantage of a single, long-term agency head is achieving politically difficult regulatory outcomes. Aaron Klein writes that a careful examination of recent trends shows trouble on the horizon for regulators of all shapes and sizes.

“In the end, this speech addressed some issues usefully, detailed a coherent and attractive vision of the department’s attitude towards democracy protection—and left a lot of questions unanswered. Some of these questions probably cannot responsibly be answered. But others can and should,” argue Quinta Jurecic, Andrew Kent, and Benjamin Wittes about U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s speech this week.