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Have you seen some of the new schools being built? If money is an issue, this is one place we need to reassess. I don't suggest we cram kids in one-room wooden school houses, but at the same time we really shouldn't be spending so much money on sprawling campuses with amenities that look wonderful but often go unused.
Yep. In my area there are schools being built all the time. Nevertheless, when it comes to staffing, materials, internal studies, and so on, funds continue to play a huge part of what they will be able to do. That's why states are usually reactive to federal interests. On some of the big things they aren't always be behind. They can in fact slightly precede the federal government in much of the legal language and requirements. The Feds can afford to throw money at a problem when states cannot.
But I will add that states are already strapped for cash on the students that take the most resources. The Feds hadn't kept their end of the bargain, leaving the states to do most of the work....and they aren't really succeeding without strain. That's why I'm even more skeptical about decentralization .