When it comes to paying for buildings, the federal government is pretty much a nonexistent entity. For them to say what they are saying is a bit of a fairy tale. In fact, the federal government, intrusive as it is when it comes to public education, pays just 4-6 percent of the freight when it comes to writing the check for your average local school district. The rest of the money comes from state and local efforts. Now, we are not saying that we want the federal government to be more involved than it is, but we are saying that the message in some of the census advertising is false.
Schools do best with local control, operating as close as possible to the people that they serve.
These are the same people who are paying for it, by the way, so this works out well. In fact, schools get in trouble when the rules and regulations come from afar. Just look at the track record. What all this comes down to is that the Census was established to do a few things. They were important things, but they were pretty simple.