An interesting game is being played by U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee), the major sponsor of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and by others who claim that ESSA both reduces federal control and restores some state and local control.
ESSA does allow states some leeway on how they choose to address accountability to the federal government, although their choices are subject to review by the U.S. Department of Education and the final chapter has not yet been written on the "peer review" process for state plans by federal education officials. (Nor is it clear that this process is constitutional.)
The trunk, which is at the Worcester Historical Museum, was present at the Battle of Lexington, where Paul Revere had to help move it to prevent it from being captured by the British. It had all sorts of incriminating papers in it that would have caused problems for Patriots.
