Only if you have a conventional definition of education. Something like, "the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life".
Most people have a similar definition in mind, but it is most definitely not what the educrats in the ruling class mean when they craft public education policy.
When the ruling class say education, they mean indoctrination in political correctness and socialization to submit to the State and other ruling class authority as well as minimal impartation of knowledge and reasoning skills. That requires the impartation of false knowledge, the diminution of natural faculties of reason and judgment, and the infantilization of the ruled class. Pretty much the opposite of what most people mean by education. It is difficult to accomplish the sort of education that the ruling class desires. That's why they need more resources, including children's time, to achieve their objectives.
Government exists to advance the interests of the ruling class. Its schools train children to think and behave in the interests of the ruling class. It has been naive to think otherwise.
For an superb elucidation on why this is true, see Angelo Codevilla's article, America's Ruling Class in the August 2010 American Spectator.
Talk about re-education camps!