A 46-year-old woman looking for a man at a campsite in the woods in Fall River while bearing what looked like a handgun told two women she came across that she was a Boston parole officer, police said.
The December 2015 re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act required all states that wanted Title I money to help school districts with low-income students to develop and submit a four-year plan, under the control of the state's education department. All state plans had to be "peer reviewed" by people chosen by the U.S. Department of Education and approved by the U.S. Secretary of Education. The bill, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, did not require or even suggest that these four-year state education plans be approved by a state's elected legislators or by the elected local school board members in the state.
Interestingly, no state's attorney general is on record as declaring the plan submitted by its state's education department illegal or unconstitutional. No state attorney general pointed out that the federal government has no constitutional authority over a state's education policies.
