It’’s like I told my ex when she said we have no money for Defense. I said to get rid of the education department.
Yep.
It is clearly not a federal function. But the state governments, being the cheap whores that they are, eagerly pocketed and quickly became addicted to the "free" federal money that was offered. Now, in order to exercise their rights of educational self governance they must stop taking the money. Yeah, like that's going to happen.