Under No-Child-Left-Behind, large numbers of mandates were decided in Washington DC by the Department of Education…
State Boards had to wait to find out that which they would have to deal, then decide how to work with it…
Under the new ESSA that is changed. State Boards are the ones now given the ultimate power to decide education in that state… In a theoretical contest between Washington DC and the state, the state is now given top-right…
Many state school boards are not prepared for this… whether their state elects or has their governor appoint them, they are laypeople who are far removed from the daily grind which education extracts. Often having never set foot in a classroom since their high school graduation, they are now thrust into making policy that affects ever child under their control.
Often meeting only 8-10 times a year as a ceremonial function, they are now…
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The Season Of Myths 
Beware of the reality that the “State Board” in Delaware is not a reflection of the local elected boards so any power ceded by the feds remains in the hands of Jack (the public education auctioneer) Markell.
Rep. John Kowalko
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