Citizens need to do for themselves. The existing system cannot be reformed. Here, above all other areas, is where parents should Go Galt.
The reason that most Mexicans are illiterate is that in the last century those in power feared an educated electorate. The evil Mexican government (still in power today) closed the Catholic schools which was the only educational system in Mexico and began a state-sponsored hate and eradication of the Roman Catholic Church and their institutions of higher learning.
The thoroughly evil central socialist government of the Estados Unidos is doing the same thing, albeit differently.