Federal government provides a lot of mandates, but none of the funding. Obviously, this will lead to arbitrage opportunities within the system that result in g

Federal government provides a lot of mandates, but none of the funding. Obviously, this will lead to arbitrage opportunities within the system that result in goals other than fulfilling the mandates for the people participating in the system. Specifically, passing the buck onto someone else and maintaining plausible deniability. For example, if the Feds wanted to ensure this student received all the therapy and medicine and one to one education or whatever their legally mandated Individual Education Plan called for, then the Feds should have paid for all of it.