Articles written by Lyndsey Layton

Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post|Feb 9, 2016

Governors in Michigan, Arkansas, Nevada, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio and elsewhere — most of them Republican leaders who otherwise champion local control in their fights with the federal government — say they are intervening in cases of chronic academic or financial failure. They say they have a moral obligation to act when it is clear that local efforts haven’t led to improvement. “I want to protect the schoolchildren and their parents; that’s my first duty,” Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, said about his plan, which would wrest contr...