School Boards Association: Commissioner Holliday to meet with USED Secretary Duncan about the federal agency’s “overreach” into state education decision making

The extraordinary saga of Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday finally having his fill of federal overreach into state education matters continues with this recent news release from the Kentucky School Boards Association.

Reports the KSBA:

“Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday is going to take his frustration to Washington, D.C. for a face-to-face discussion with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.”

Coming on top of the recent lawsuit filed by Louisiana’s governor regarding similar federal overreach into that state’s education business, and given the fact that Holliday’s comments as current president of the national Council of Chief State School Officers could represent far more than a Kentucky viewpoint, it looks like Washington’s education ‘over-reachers’ may have a little rebellion on their hands.

Also waiting in the wings is a possible reaction from Oklahoma, which recently dropped Common Core State Standards and almost immediately had its strings-loaded waiver from No Child Left Behind cancelled by the US Secretary of Education in an action that certainly could raise some constitutionalists’ eyebrows.