There already is, and there has been for many years. Students in blue states, on average, perform better on all standardized tests compared to students in red states. I’ve also seen some extremely suspect coursework being reported on these kids’ transcripts, like engineering coursework getting counted as a foreign language, or multiple years of Christian theology “electives” that every student suspiciously takes being given at public schools.

In fact, the real issue is that this has been going on for so long, an entire generation of teachers were taught by these poor red state education systems. Now you have people who take pride in their illiteracy teaching freshmen U.S. history, to the exact effect that you’re imagining.

Edit: Jfc, I just read a student’s essay from Virginia where they’re lamenting the fact their high school didn’t do any literary analysis of books, but instead analyzed Youtube videos and short poems. They’re not even teaching reading anymore. Sure, this student was motivated to go beyond their high school curriculum and focused on learning the classics themselves, but what about the other 446 students in their class?