you can still find a classical education, you just have to look harder. my daughter graduated from the U of Dallas, it’s a small private Catholic university in Dallas, and it’s billed as the university for independent thinkers. They don’t use text books, they use original texts. she got a first rate education there. we live in the DC area and she has a job with a trade association. the school was by and large very conservative also, which was why she chose it.
Then there’s always St. John’s in Maryland, where talented folks get a degree in Classics and Mathematics, reading Euclid in Greek, and other masters, in their own tongue.
I'm glad you and she were able to find a real university.