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No, it isn't. Education is not a right in the reality that we live in. That you WANT it to be is irrelevant. It is not.
ACtually, it is a right. It's just not a right guaranteed at the federal level. All 50 state constitutions mandate the provision of public education.
The right to a public (free) education (up to high school) is not in the federal Constitution because schooling is viewed as the domain of the states and their governments, not the federal government. The consequence of that is that one's zip code, because about half of all school funding is funded by property taxes, plays a huge role in the nature of education delivered to students.