Local control and government control have both played a significant role in education for several years helping better schools. Just recently the government began assisting and improving numerous failing schools. Government control has taken over in the sense of standardized testing, which “over the decades has grown in acceptance and popularity within the educational community” (Maranto, 2105). In 1845, the first standardized test was taken, created by the government to test whether students were being taught the required criteria. Even until recently, much of education funding came from the federal government, but in 2013 “the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) increased fiscal flexibility for district officials; provides more resources to districts…” (Wolf, 2016). In the past, students in low-income areas were not provided the materials they needed to enhance their learning experience. But since the LCFF took action, it has helped schools in these low-income areas and encouraged community members to participate in district decisions. Education wasn't always at the top of the priority list when it first started. It was thought to be a place that would teach children about religion, how to work and read, but many soon realized that it would not be exactly that. Yes, education helps improve a person's knowledge to be able to grow as a working person, but it also educates one to have greater knowledge of events that happened in the past. The government plays a huge role in education because it is able to see the scores of all schools and know what most of the problems are in education. What many don't know is that problems in education are caused differently by people and students in different places. If local control began to have more say in schools, then these problems would have a better chance of solving themselves