The new federal Every Student Succeeds Act that applies to public schools throughout the nation is supposed to be an improvement on the old No Child Left Behind Act, which just about everyone disliked.

But with more that 1,000 pages needed to explain what the new law entails, no wonder Gov. David Ige on Thursday announced he was forming a task force to study it and develop a plan for how to implement it — though we wonder if this isn’t something the state Board of Education ought to be doing.

We’re told the new law will return a measure of local autonomy to Hawaii’s public schools, but at this point, it’s unclear how. Ige’s new 17-member task force, headed by retired high school principal Darrel Galera, undoubtedly will have a grand time trying to figure that out, as soon as Galera can find 16 other community members to join him. Application forms are at forms.ehawaii.gov/pages/board-survey.