Failing education system.
The re-privatization of education is the means to limit education, it is not the cause of the decline. The reason why education is on the decline is due to the transition away from being a manufacturing nation to becoming a service nation. When the United States was created, being educated meant you were white, male and wealthy.
Knowledge is power and limiting education is control.. This was true back in the 1700s and it is true today. There is a reason why education was private and restricted and only afforded to the wealthy and the church. Those in power.
This private education system would probably have continued if not for the industrial revolution and the advances in science and technology.
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