Excellent point! and I agree completely.
Now I would like you to expand your thinking just a little, and grant the posibility that in order to change the way in which federal dollars are now allocated toward education, that it might be necessary to effect the change incrementally over time. Baby steps, as it were.
Now before you claim this is just me weasling, let me remind you that we are under nearly a constant barrage of similar sentiment regarding the election of POTUS.
I remember how it went: "Let's elect someone we can "work with", and just try to get some measure of progress, because we can't possibly expect to get everything all at once."
Sound familiar?