I was reasonably well educated in the 60s and early 70s, but I was in one of the best educational systems in the country at the time, thanks to Charles Stewart Mott, and even then, I could see that a lot of my cohorts weren’t doing that well.
One of the irritating things about the immigration debate is the conflation of opposition to immigration per se, and opposition to the unrestricted flooding of the country with people who have been completely unvetted, and many of whom are coming not for American opportunity but rather government handouts, and many of whom hate America (e.g., Somalians in Minnesota).
I don’t understand why this wouldn’t be in NASA’s charter. You can say they haven’t been doing a very good job of it, but the response to that should be to fix that, not create another agency.