To hop onto that, only 2-8% of educational funding is from the federal government. Your state taxes pay for the majority of educational funding in your state. For a department with billions of dollars at their disposal, the federal department of education really does very little for education. Besides IDEA and FERPA, we have a billion dollar department that impacts very little. I'm sure "fixing" their inadequacies is a massive undertaking and much more complicated than I can imagine, but they are currently useless.