Along with other federal departments under the new administration, the U.S. Department of Education has been staffed not by a policy or practice expert, but by an ideologue. And related to what is known about the new Secretary of Education is her advocacy for school choice in the form of vouchers, despite what the most recent research reveals about their ineffectiveness as a school improvement model. But, as this article well demonstrates, governmental education reform efforts are rarely about improving instructional practice, and instead about the more politically-oriented governance. Too often, legislative school reform omits those most informed, and those most affected: the practitioners and students.