Public schools are controlled by private organizations in most states. The Democrat party, the ACLU and its state affiliate, AU, the NEA and its state affiliate, the AFT and its state affiliate, the League of Women Voters and its state affiliate, the Parent/Teachers Association (typically a non-profit associated with a particular county school board, various non-profits set up by teachers and administrators, various protestant sects, and other hate groups.

Even in the states where the legislature is in Republican control, most of the teachers are members of one of the teachers' unions, which are non-profits too.

Essentially, public funds are going to private organizations in all states and it is these private organizations that sue the states to enforce the "Wall of Separation" misinterpretation of the First Amendment they used to "establish" the "protestant common school" (otherwise known as public schools).