-School districts and the school board have elected and appointed individuals. The school board then appoints a superintendent who is an experienced individual with administration experience. 
-Local school boards are also responsible for creating the curriculum, hiring personnel/staff, and deciding when schools should be closed or constructed.
-Although state and federal governments fund the majority of the budget for schools, the school district is responsible for funding and deciding where the rest of the money goes. 
- The local government has property taxes on businesses and homes in order to fund their schools. Either the school board or local city council is in charge of the taxes. The amount of funding from the local government is based off the rate in which the local community is taxed (based off income/affluence of the community).

-The state has the power to establish their own departments of education and their own laws governing school practices. 

-State governments often choose to delegate much of their authority to local school districts, but they can reclaim that authority.

-Each state is responsible for their schools standards, and they all vary across the United States. They make sure that each school is preforming well and wether or not they need to be modified. 

-They pay for a little less than half of the schools operating cost. They draw funds from income and sales tax. 

-A recent development in state educational oversight is the emergence of the Common Core State Standards.

-Money that comes from the federal government not from the Department of Education, but from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture’s School Lunch Program
-Every Student Succeeds Act and National Assessment of Education Progress are programs recommended by the federal government, but they are not funded to support these programs