What, in fact, happened was that control of the schools and their curriculums increasing moved up the decision-making ladder away from local school boards and even state education departments. The collection consists of fourteen volumes with 15,000 goals covering every major subject taught in the public schools from K-12. Nobody else did either. With remarkable success, Outcome-Based Education became the way American students were to be trained to believe the same things, have the same values, and to ignore those they were taught at home. This is important because values are supposed to be the job of parents.
Some parents are Catholic.
Some parents are Protestant. Some are Jewish or Moslem. Some are liberal and some are conservative. Their values no longer seem to matter. That s why there no longer is a moment of prayer in any school in America.