From an article at National Review - writer is  Alexandra DeSanctis Bureaucrats manipulate a new law that was designed to reduce federal involvement in education. In December of last year, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which aimed to roll back much of the federal government’s role in education policy, but now the Department of Education has released a lengthy proposal that might impede that goal. School systems are set to begin the transition from the No Child Left Behind Act to ESSA, during the upcoming academic year and put the new program into full effect in 2017–18. At the end of May, however, the Department of Education, tasked with … [Read more...]