These federal education programs are the latest example of government overreach into the lives of its citizens.  Good intentions do not make good policy, especially when administered from afar by a big federal bureaucracy.  The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), signed into law as part of President Johnson’s Great Society program in 1965, and its latest revisions, the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President Bush in 2001, and most recently Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) signed by President Obama in 2015, do more harm than good and would fail a cost-benefit analysis test.   I recommend we discontinue these federal programs, put the money saved into the pockets of our parents and allow the education dollars to follow the child.  Of course, these programs cannot be eliminated tomorrow so a transition period will be needed.  The Office of Civil Rights, one of the few DOE offices with constitutional legitimacy, could be relocated to the DOJ.  During a two to three-year transition period, the federal monies could be issued to states in the form of a block grant, with the amounts decreased each year as the monies are eventually transferred back to the citizens.