The U.S. Department of Education just canceled $36 million in magnet school grants to small high schools in New York City because these schools allow transgender students to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity and they allow them to participate in sports.
New York City education officials say they are complying with state and city laws.
The Trump administration says the schools must follow the President’s executive order, not state and local laws.
Isn’t this a classic case of federal control vs. local control?
Didn’t Republicans used to be great defenders of local control?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.”
from Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core. Perspectives on Politics , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 564 – 581. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714001595
We are no longer a Democracy.
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They always talk about local control and the national debt and budget deficits when they are out of power. When in power, they are mum about those. It is all about power. Trump just upped the dial to 11.
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no. When have Republicans ever held fast to values?
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States’ Rights and Local Control were useful tools at a time when the Corporate Owned GOP could use them like the old Union‑Busting tactic known as the “Whipsaw” to set States and Cities up against one another in a competition for always temporary favorable treatment. Now that the race to the bottom among States and Cities is complete, the whipsaw is no longer needed and the COGOP can simply impose total top‑down control.
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DeSantis is feuding with local politicians over home rule in Florida. DeSantis is a micromanager that has meddled in higher education, local elections and policies. He has installed his state spies in local affairs to help carry out his “Florida plan.” He has sicced state DOGE dogs on municipal authorities under the assumption they are guilty of waste and fraud.
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Florida is under DeSantis’ thumb.
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There are few “commitments” the Republicans make that are bona fide commitments.
So “When Did the Republican Party abandon Its Commitment to Local Control?” On Day 1.
Each Congressman’s first commitment is their Oath. How many have kept that commitment? The commitments the Republicans make are for convenience contingent on the pulse of MAWA Americans.
There are only a few topics that they are truly committed to and those are the only ones we hear about in their exaggerated newsletters. (And amazing how many are actually committed to dealing with trafficking for example, but vote against releasing Epstein’s accurate and full story?)
Local control? Yesterday’s platform.
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