The US Educational System
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The US Educational System
The US educational system is very decentralized and schools vary greatly from state
to state. There are three levels of subsidizing of education: federal, state and local. They subsidize 3-5 per cent on a federal level, around 20 per cent on a state level and 70-80 per cent on a local level.
There are 15,000 school districts which are different in size. A school district is
governed by the Board of Education/School Board/School Council which is elected every
two years by the residents of the school district. Members of school boards perform
their responsibilities on a volunteer basis, that means they do not get any salaries. They
are to define the policies for the administration of the school district. Teachers, in turn,
decide about the program and approaches of teaching.
Every resident pays a school tax to the school district he/she lives in, no matter
he/she has school children or not. School education in the United States is free and
parents are free to choose a school for their children. But if parents send their child to
a school of another school district they have to pay the sum equivalent to the school
tax directly to the school the child goes to.
There are also a lot of private schools, mainly religious, and parents have to pay for
them. The cost is $ 5,000 - $ 10,000 a year.
There is no home education in the United States. Each invalid is supposed to attend
school. School provides all the necessary conditions for them to study.
The school system structure in the United States looks like this. Children start
going to school at the age of five. First they go to eight-year elementary school a...
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The US educational system is very decentralized and schools vary greatly from state
to state. There are three levels of subsidizing of education: federal, state and local. They subsidize 3-5 per cent on a federal level, around 20 per cent on a state level and 70-80 per cent on a local level.
There are 15,000 school districts which are different in size. A school district is
governed by the Board of Education/School Board/School Council which is elected every
two years by the residents of the school district. Members of school boards perform
their responsibilities on a volunteer basis, that means they do not get any salaries. They
are to define the policies for the administration of the school district. Teachers, in turn,
decide about the program and approaches of teaching.
Every resident pays a school tax to the school district he/she lives in, no matter
he/she has school children or not. School education in the United States is free and
parents are free to choose a school for their children. But if parents send their child to
a school of another school district they have to pay the sum equivalent to the school
tax directly to the school the child goes to.
There are also a lot of private schools, mainly religious, and parents have to pay for
them. The cost is $ 5,000 - $ 10,000 a year.
There is no home education in the United States. Each invalid is supposed to attend
school. School provides all the necessary conditions for them to study.
The school system structure in the United States looks like this. Children start
going to school at the age of five. First they go to eight-year elementary school a...
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