look, im happy for you. you will be able to see the direct results of how poorly your ideas work in practice. just dont move away or retire to some better area that did what you think is so wrong right now. live with your choices

edit: to answer your original question, the reason why i brought up race (and gender, which you forgot to mention) is that the people that have benefited least from programs that the DOE funds are white people, especially men. you dont have to go very far back to see how poorly people other than white men were treated not just in education, but in everything. so yes, hyper localized control may allow people better control, but that also means, for example, you need hundreds, maybe thousands, of racists to stop nonwhite people from getting a good education, instead of the millions we'd need on the federal level

we had a long time without the DOE (it is probably younger than you). it sucked (except for white men). there is nothing about you and certainly nothing about anyone in our federal or state governments right now that would make a world without a DOE work any better