That’s probably true. It’s like that with all carrot and stick government programs. The stranglehold the government has on our schools is solely because of Federal dollars the government provides for various support programs for them. State gets Pre-K babysitting money, school breakfast/lunch funding, and likely many other programs. Likewise for state DOT federal dollars, energy, you name it. It is ubiquitous.
Both state and local bureaucrats become so hooked on that money, they are willing to do virtually anything the government says to keep it. Even if it is a violation of established laws, or the Constitution.
There’s one more level you left out: the taxpayer/State $$ that fuel those ‘gov’t programs’; which are already outside A1S8/9th/10th.
If the State were to finally get things under control, it would STOP forwarding $$ to Fedzilla, declare 9th/10/A1S8 and tell Fedzilla to F* off