“why doesn’t she point out that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for intrastate schools?”
Whether the topic is roads, energy or schools, the one with the gold makes the rules. Since local society does not want to pay for anything anymore, that opens the doors up to the feds to control everything.
Thanks for reply DonaldC. Please note that the Supreme Court has clarified that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And since intrastate schools are uniquely a state power issue, the federal funding that schools are drooling over with respect to accepting Common Core are arguably state revenues that the corrupt feds stole from the states through unconstitutional taxes.
So the states have the gold to run their own schools if citizens would get themselves up to speed with the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers and associated limited power to lay taxes and peacefully exercise their voting power to stop the feds from stealing state revenues with unconstitutional taxes.
And to ultimately do the job of stopping the corrupt feds from stealing state revenues right, the states need to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment. Thomas Jefferson had put it this way.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.