[dragonwriter]

> Fortunately, most public school policy is determined at the state and local levels as compared to the federal level.

Quite a lot of it is influenced by incentives and conditions attached to federal funds, both those explicit in law and those resulting from the Department of Education's particular choices in applying the law.

DeVos will control the latter and (presumably, via influence within the Administration and controlling the DoE's interactions with Congress) substantially influence the former.

[ComradeTaco]

I apologize, I should have said funding mechanisms{[1]. Policy is heavily influenced at the federal level.

[1]https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart....