President Thomas Jefferson had not only officially indicated that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes, but had also pointed out that the states would need to amend the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to do so.
“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.
“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.
So Trump and patriots already have a big mess to clean up with repsect to kicking the unconstitutionally big federal government out of intrastate schools.
Bump! Excellent points.
As a college professor myself, I notice that accreditation has become the last institutional “chicken coop” that the “foxes” (unions) had neglected.
College and university teacher unions seek to eliminate this last “fire wall” allowing outside voices and transparency into assessing and monitoring higher education.
Accreditation teams visiting our campuses have been composed of OTHER FACULTY & ADMINISTRATORS, and now the unions want ONLY THEIR APPOINTEES on these teams. So much for any public input, outside voices, or accountability..... it’s all & only leftism, all the time from here on in. Universities and community colleges like mine will be reduced to low standard indoctrination centers unless private 2-and 4- year campuses start emerging and competing with these overpriced, corrupt, ‘academic’ money pits.