Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic
federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.
They know what's at stake and what interests are entrenched: the structures, finances, and cultures of
hundreds of universities; the laws, regulations, and practices of massive
federal bureaucracies; the expenditure of scores of billions of public and private dollars; and the ferocious politics of long - vested privilege.