.............excellent post and I agree with you on all but one point. Actually, it is a half point. You say the Fed’s involvement should be reduced substantially. I say the Fed’s should be OUT all together! The 535 are just rotten to the core and they are lazy! Meaning, they pass some damn law and then let a bureaucracy create thousands of sub laws or regs under it while they are out on the golf course or on vacation.
Education should be turned back to local control and monitored by and/or regulated by each state. The Feds have screwed everything they touch up so bad it is time for them to get trimmed back about 90%.
I agree with you that education is a state responsibility and that’s where it should remain.
The NEA should be shut down.