Children grow up in a world that was not created by them, but by their parents. News at 11.<p>Running education at the federal level is not going to suddenly lift education funding to a &quot;10&quot; in all states.<p>I am not doing a good job explaining this eloquently, but the point is federalism allows states to cut education budgets, <i>or</i> be lavish with them, without answering to other states. States that want to be lavish do not have the clout to force the entire country to be lavish. &quot;Every state has top quality schools with extremely generous education spending&quot; is not an option on the table, because the states that don&#x27;t want to spend money on education have a vote, too.