> Financing and control are separate things. I'm not so sure this is true - or at least it's not true in practice. Look at "Obamacare" - the lever it used to c

> Financing and control are separate things. I'm not so sure this is true - or at least it's not true in practice. Look at "Obamacare" - the lever it used to control state medical regulations was federal medical funding, and that's not an uncommon situation. Federal highway funds are also a pretty well-known case of funding providing control. IMO even if there was a "fund all the schools with no control" bill passed and signed this year, in ten years (when everyone is dependant on federal school funding) that "no control" provision would be looking pretty doomed.