Absolutely it's a bad idea. When we think of the tools that are available to the federal government, I've tried to stress that one of the main vehicles or instruments available is the social transfers as well as the spending power more generally.
One simple but very powerful step they could take is for the federal government to structure its transfers in the social transfer field in the way we are all familiar with in the health field, to say that under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly with women with young children, you have the right to dignity, the right to an adequate income, the right to work, and so on. The federal government needs to revisit that and to respect the norms that we have obligated ourselves to internationally, in the way of being accountable to the world community but also to low-income people, to people in poverty, to ensure that their rights, not only to literacy but to child care more generally, could be respected in an accountable and enforceable way.