You can still centrally manage Macs? Look at every tech company.
Yeah, but can schools do what even tech companies struggle with/cobble together here?
Macs are very popular in schools today for teachers and staff. Switching to Macbook Neos for students would actually simplify their support burden. I'm not sure they'd be cost justified though.
Source: My wife works IT for our school district.
https://www.apple.com/education/k12/deploy-and-manage/