No, it's not. My position is that there is a place for governmental powers at all levels and all changes should be at the lowest level possible. Whenever a group of Americans band together for a town or county, they can best tax and appropriate money for projects such as a new fairground or an additional well and pump house. Sometimes it benefits the towns or counties to make deals with adjoining or other towns/counties for mutual gain. Projects beyond their means or scope get bumped up for State decisions. Like counties and towns, State can banded together for mutual gain such as mass buying of textbooks, a point of political discourse.
Marketplace rules apply to almost everything including text books. The biggest buyer has the biggest sway on what they like in textbooks. Texas was the biggest buyer and liberals revolted.
States rights over Federal domination. Buy your own textbooks, raise your own taxes. Leave my state alone. TIA
https://nybooks.com/articles/2012/06/21/how-texas-inflicts-bad-textbooks-on-us/
How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us
Gail Collins June 21, 2012 issue
Texas originally acquired its power over the nation’s textbook supply because it paid 100 percent of the cost of all public school textbooks, as long as the books in question came from a very short list of board-approved options. The selection process “was grueling and tension-filled,” said Julie McGee, who worked at high levels in several publishing houses before her retirement. “If you didn’t get listed by the state, you got nothing.” On the other side of the coin, David Anderson, who once sold textbooks in the state, said that if a book made the list, even a fairly mediocre salesperson could count on doing pretty well. The books on the Texas list were likely to be mass-produced by the publisher in anticipation of those sales, so other states liked to buy them and take advantage of the economies of scale.
“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas when it comes to textbooks,” said Dan Quinn, who worked as an editor of social studies textbooks before joining the Texas Freedom Network, which was founded by Governor Ann Richards’s daughter, Cecile, to counter the religious right.