Boosting the federal share of education funding reduces state and local political pressures on annual school budgets and provides more certainty for administrators. Affluent communities always have the option of over-taxing themselves for schools, but at least poor communities will reach a higher funding threshold.
One may also ask, does the federal government have the power to provide public education?
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Thus, public education became a states’ rights mandate and one that developed over time to have education funded by both state and local governments.
Keeping this in consideration, what role should the government play in education?
The Department is primarily responsible for the formulation, planning, implementation and co-ordination of the policies, standards, regulations, plans, programmes and projects in areas of formal and non-formal education.