I prefer that method and the risks for each state that go with it compared to a national bureaucratic solution that ultimately enforces what a select few think...basically at the point of a gun.
The truly constitional method produced the best education system in the world. Over time, it would do so again, because there would be competition and an incentive to establish a standard that is truly "the best", as opposed to basically catering to the lowest common denominator to make sure "social equity" is enforced by those who have no real interest in it other than how it can garner votes for them by appealing to the base mentality of feeding at the public largess trough.
Let the states do so...and then my money goes to the state that opens their education most up to the free market so that people who are truly looking to gain parents choice for schooling are thus incented to produce the best education possible based on what that state sets forth as their standard.
When you kid wants Harvard and Harvard says, hey, the grades are good but his curriculum is not up to snuff, so sorry...
You end up with a lag time. I live in Mississippi, I don’t want to wait the 5 years or more it would take for them to correct issues. That’s the time a kid spends in high school at least.
You may say well move. Ok, you displace families over eduction, something that can be fixed with standards. You think the people will go for that.
I am not saying keep the DOE, but we have to have something in place.
There are much broader issues at stake here than your hatred for the federal government.