The good news is that federal pressure and control will be applied slowly, and curricular pressure will be applied only indirectly through a new testing regime that will serve as a benchmark for the states' own measures, not as the basis for direct federal control. Accordingly, much state autonomy will actually remain – if the states and their citizenry vigorously claim and exercise it. We must be vigilant at the state level to maintain and increase local control of the education system. Of course the best way we as individuals can control our own children's education is by sending them to private schools and eliminate the goevernment schools system all together.