For states, districts, and schools, the Every Student Succeeds Act’s transfer of decision-making power from the federal government to the local level will require “a huge time and conceptual burden,” Michael Kirst, president of the California state board of education, tells Education Week.
How that power will be shared is not yet clear, with questions abounding on topics like how states will serve the under-performing schools and under-served students that the law’s previous iteration, No Child Left Behind, was supposed to help.
