My recommendation is for Congress to resuscitate socioeconomic mobility by giving states a true choice in revitalizing primary

and secondary public schooling. The first option is for Congress, as a condition of continued federal aid, to offer states a chance

to disentangle the quality of a child's education from neighborhood wealth, by mandating that states dramatically alter their

funding framework to progressively provide greater education funding per pupil for less affluent schools, inclusive of teacher

salaries. States are free to reject this proposal. States, however, that reject this proposal can continue receiving federal education

subsidies if they adopt Congress's second option, which is for states, as a remedial measure, to recharacterize school districts

attendance zones to further socioeconomic integration and consequently socioeconomic mobility. 7

With respect to higher or tertiary education, the federal government should condition access to federal financial aid on colleges

and universities taking steps to facilitate the favorable matriculation of *100 children from low-wealth backgrounds. The first

step would be to place a cap on federal student loans. This will encourage colleges and universities to reallocate resources to

control tuition and fee inflation. The second step would be for Congress to condition the availability of federal financial aid

and student loans, to tertiary institutions providing an equal amount of need- and merit- based scholarships, such that students

from low-wealth households are no longer systematically subsidizing their higher wealth peers. These changes, if successfully

implemented by Congress based on the Biden Administration's recommendation of my proposal, will significantly improve

primary, secondary, and tertiary education and go a long way to prevent further democratic retrogression.