Traditionally has been a state and local effort.

When Arne Duncan was the head of the Chicago public schools, one of the calls he dreaded most came from a certain federal bureaucracy — the Department of Education. “It wasn’t a call about teaching kids to read,” Duncan recalled. “It was a call about a compliance report or something.” Now Duncan sits atop the Education Department — meaning he’s the one making those calls to school systems across the country, hoping to reshape education and the role of the federal government in what traditionally has been a state and local effort...Link