I would lump this in with the same sorts of arguments as the US’s “Free Market” in Health Care compared to the “free” Health Care in other countries.
Subsidies (Student Loans), Government Accredidation/Licensing, IP Law (extremely expensive books), etc etc.
Education is one of the sectors with the MOST government intervention in it… it is preposterous to believe it is “Free Market” at all.
Here are a few things I quickly gathered:
https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/rising-tuition-costs/18680
The Case against Student Aid:
The Education Bubble: