“that responsibility actually belongs to states and local districts.”

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“For example, it’s up to states to set curriculum standards, to decide how they want to handle standardized testing. Districts decide which books kids read.”

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“That’s a job left up to states and school districts”

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“So the American education system is famously and uniquely decentralized with control over the day-to-day operation of schools in the hands of roughly 14,000 locally elected or appointed school boards. ... And states tend to carry out that responsibility by delegating the control over the day-to-day operation of schools to local school districts.”

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