«The story of how California's electric system got to its current state is a long and gory one,» Bushnell wrote, but «
the dominant policy driver in the electricity sector has unquestionably been a focus on developing renewable sources of electricity generation.»
If the federal government was the primary
driver of education
policy in the early 2000s, states reemerged as a
dominant player in recent years leading up to the enactment of ESSA, driving the structure of the post-NCLB iteration of standards - based reform.