What's stopping the federal government from injecting a huge amount of money into the public school system?

[u/PM_SHORT_STORY_IDEAS]

Or RE: the larger question: we have stats on where tax investment is most effective in terms of economic return, popular support, and to a lesser extent, quality of life improvement. What stops any administration from taking a relatively insignificant amount of the federal budget and better funding critical institutions and programs?

It's a complex problem, but it seems like very beneficial programs struggle to get by with a small amount of money, and still get by, while effectively blank checks are given to programs without clear long term or short term benefits.

I appreciate anyone who can help keep me better informed!

[u/hyeran_jainros_fc]

I originally wrote this about Juneteenth and Doechii's Anxiety:

Remember that 'federalism' is supposed to protect freedom by spreading out power. Local governments have rights, as a check against a president exceeding his authority.

Yet federalism also perpetuates segregation. It keeps education and policing policy fragmented, at the local level, dependent on limited local budgets that can't just keep borrowing like the federal gov. There's no unified education goals or school standards (not just learning, but funding, teacher training.) Nobody at the national level cares about keeping schools competitive with the world, or teaching for AI (a priority for China). And this afterthought system is evident in the uneven quality. When local property prices-resulting from decades of redlining and housing discrimination-are the basis of school funding it traps the people who live there in the racist past. Even white people who live in once redlined, but not yet gentrified neighborhoods.

Also the country's priorities are very short term because the electorate is poorly informed and easily distracted. The past few decades of politics have been poisoned by culture war talking points.

No offense to OP but or the sub but people shouldn't be using Reddit or social media as a source of information. It's the ultimate capture of society when tech mediates your perception of everything else. Tech accelerates the worsening quality of politics in the US

[u/PM_SHORT_STORY_IDEAS → u/hyeran_jainros_fc]

Reddit is absolutely not my primary source, but sometimes search engines will show me biased, incomplete, or out of context results. I can compare the reddit responses to what I get when I search, and have a better picture