Discuss the inherent need for why a "right to education" was necessary.

The inherent need for a "right to education" was implicit
in the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA.)  President Johnson,
a former educator himself and one who worked in the most impoverished of areas in Texas,
teaching mostly Mexican children.  A student at Southwest Teachers College, Johnson
understood the need for education to be considered as a necessary right for all of
America's children.  Johnson understood the effects of children who did not have
educational access and recognized the fundamental doors that were closed to them as a
result.  He was also following a line of Presidents who also advocated education as
being critical for America's future.  Truman and Kennedy both saw the need to increase
funding and support of math and science programs as being essential for the United
States to compete with the Soviet Union in the Cold War.  The implication here was that
America does not succeed if there are elements where the poor and marginalized are
denied access to quality education.  Out of this general consensus, the ESEA was passed
in the hopes of ensuring that equal access to quality education would be something that
all children in America could see as a right.  The fact that the creation of Title I
funding was meant to help economically disadvantaged areas helps to bring forth this
idea that education was becoming seen as a right and not a privilege for the few.  The
law goes very far in ensuring that there is federal monetary support to ensure that no
child is denied an education, creating the legislative version of a "right to
education."