Money for schools

So the federal government authorized money to go to individual states to help keep classrooms solvent in this economic crisis. What does the state of Utah do? They first say that they don't need it. "Ah who needs well educated kids, we pay the least to help our students and that's just fine by us. "
This would have been the end of it, no money for our kids except that there is a catch. See if a state legislature refuses the money than it gets dispersed among that states schools anyway. Well our legislature couldn't let that happen so they begrudgingly took the money.
Some Republicans said that giving aid to our underfunded schools was taking away states rights, his reasoning was that the state of Utah should have had the option to refuse the money.
This to me is like a neglectful parent suing DCFS for taking their child out of the home and feeding him/her. "Hey that's my kid, and if I don't want to feed him that's my right"
Well, what about the rights of the children who are owed a decent education. With this money we could ensure that class sizes stay small, and that children with special needs get the education that they are entitled to under 504.
When the legislature slashed our budget last year they put us back in the black, good for them. But as far as I know they have no intention of raising funding for schools in the near future. To revisit my analogy, if the parents won't feed their children then someone has to make sure that they don't starve.