Is there a stimulus plan for education?

If the average person is struggling to pay their basic monthly expenses, keep a job, and maintain some semblance of their recent lifestyle, how are they able to contribute to the betterment of our failing educational system?  The clients that come to us choose to invest their own money into helping their children achieve academic success in spite of whatever academic environment their children are currently in.  But I wonder where this leaves us as a country.  If the system is not working effectively, if there is no hope for improvement on the horizon, if the future will just keep repeating the past, how can our society continue to evolve?  I wonder if the future of education is becoming micromanaged by the parents themselves…taking the education of their children, and quite frankly, their futures, and molding them on their own.  Perhaps the new movement in education is the one where parents have lost faith in the government’s ability to provide an acceptable education for all children and have just begun to create their own educational system…one that works for their children.