The Texas education system is as heavily immersed in social engineering from K-university level on the taxpayer dime as any other state, despite the rhetoric to the contrary.
What you say is true and I’m not in favor of throwing any more money at the problem. My opinion is that the problems begin at home. As long as we have parents who don’t value education and language challenged children who are in the system illegally Texas will have children who don’t graduate. I don’t know how we fix the first problem.
I have compared major school district budgets in Texas vs California.
Short answer - you are wrong. Texas is considerably less obsessed with social engineering. Way less of Texas budgets are devoted to categorical funding - money devoted, generally, as targeted spending for social engineering purposes.