Congressional hearings and subsequent reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act will produce major changes in the act in 2007, predicts Dr. Stephen Katsinas, a University of Alabama education policy expert.

“Democrats are concerned about being shortchanged by some $30 billion since 2001 in funding, while many Republicans from rural states are concerned about a ‘one size fits all’ approach to implementing testing programs,” says Katsinsas, director of the Education Policy Center in the College of Education at UA.

On the college level, Katsinas predicts that, after two years of unsuccessful tries, Congress will reauthorize the Higher Education Act.