"Provides funds" is exactly how they excert controls, the feds never hand out money without strings attached.
It's how they for example pushed 21 as the legal drinking age across the board. They didn't have the authority to make a national drinking age, but they could deny road funding to any state who thought otherwise.
This is exactly why the Federal Government has almost no control over the education curriculum. It's left to the States.
One corrupt administration can just fuck up the whole country for generations.
"almost no control" eh? What do you think the dept of education does?
Provides funding to State & Local education (Grad School, Undergrad and K-12).
Also collects student loan payments.
But they don't have the authority to force a State to change its curriculum, otherwise Betsy DeVos would've already done so.
"Provides funds" is exactly how they excert controls, the feds never hand out money without strings attached.
It's how they for example pushed 21 as the legal drinking age across the board. They didn't have the authority to make a national drinking age, but they could deny road funding to any state who thought otherwise.