“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added] .” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
But since the states have never amended the Constitution to give Congress such powers, it remains that the feds have no constitutional authority to interfere with intrastate schooling.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The constitutionally powerful states would find much more revenues to spend on public schooling if they eliminated funding from the unconstitutional middleman, the corrupt, constitutionally-humbled federal government, by growing some and stopping the feds from stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
What is needed is complete separation of school and state (on **all**levels).
Government education is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination for the student and the taxpayers who are forced to fund it.. It can never be religiously, politically, or culturally neutral in content or consequences.