Some de-annexation leaders in Arizona say that they have been contacted by people from retirement communities in Florida about copying the Arizona example. The retirement communities are unique because they involve both entire villages without children, and whose members vote in disproportionate numbers compared with other age groups. In principle, however, there is no reason that many different types of communities could not secede from their school districts, such as communities in which parents support private education, and want to avoid supporting public schools. Moreover, control of education by state and federal bureaucrats is based on money, since the federal government has no power to require local schools to do anything. The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that Congress cannot require any state or local government to adopt or enforce federal guidelines.
Schools participate in most programs solely on account of grant money.
The key to returning control of education to parents, and relieving the burden of the average tax-payer is the elimination of federal and state bureaucracies which both control schools and swallow up an enormous amount of tax dollars. Numerous studies are suggesting exactly that. The Milwaukee study found that the travel budget for the superintendent of schools was four times larger than the budget for science materials in the city. And that is just the tip of the ice berg. Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations has 2000 pages of rules applying to local schools which accept federal aid.