Local policymakers hold the key to school desegregation, U.S education chief John King says.

U.S. Secretary of Education John King speaks at the 2016 national conference of the Education Writers Association in Boston.

John King wants the nation’s schools to be less segregated — but there’s a limit to what he can do about it.

That was the new federal education secretary’s message on Monday in a presentation to journalists, where he said local policymakers are the ones with the real power to integrate schools. Read more.