People they are often democrats who want to say ive got a good idea. Lets impose it on all the schools. For example common core, theres a good idea, some people say. Thats a very explicit standard of point of teaching schools. We have 43 states with waivers from the u. S. Department of education. In order to get that waiver, which they need to keep their schools from being failing, they have to in effect adopt common core. Thats created a general uprising in ten. I imagine it has in North Carolina. I suspect it has in iowa not so much because of what the standards are but because of the very idea that washington would be telling local School Districts that they know better what the academic standards of their schools taught to be than the state capital and local school board. The same thing with teacher evaluation when i was the governor of tennessee in the 1980s we became the first state to pay teachers more for teaching well. I had a year and a half brawl with the National Education