Disagree. Moving funding to a federal level might be more efficient but gives me, as a resident of one particular state, less control over how much is spent on education. I have zero interest in seeing a nationally funded education system gutted because a party I don't support is elected from states I don't live in that have outsize influence.

Further, the "laboratories of democracy" model means that if I don't like how my state is doing education, I'm free to move to another one.

> People move all the time, focusing at the state level concentrates costs while defusing benefits.

Not sure I understand what you're trying to say here. You don't think states are big enough to get economies of scale?