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In the United States at the national level, public education is supervised by the Department of Education
Public education is schooling provided by the government, and paid for by taxes. Public education emerged in the early 19th century as a tool of industrialisation and still uses mass production techniques to achieve its ends. Proponents of public education assert it to be necessary because of the need in modern society for people who are capable of reading, writing, and doing basic mathematics. However, some libertarians argue that education is best left to the private sector; in addition, advocates of alternative forms of education such as unschooling argue that these same skills can be achieved without subjecting children to state-run compulsory schooling. In most industrialized countries, these views are distinctly in the minority.
1 Overview
Public education is generally available to all. In most countries, it is compulsory for children to attend up to a certain age. Public education can be contrasted with private schooling, in which schools are run independently and charge students tuition feesTuition is a fee tuition by educational institutions around the world. Tuition is charged by educational institutions to assist with funding of staff and faculty, course offerings, lab equipment, computer systems, libraries, facility upkeeping, and to pro. In the US, schools run by the statesstate is any one of the 50 states which have membership of the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U. The separate state governments and the U. federal government share sovereignty. The United States Constitution allocates power betwe at the expense of the taxpayers and not charging tuition are called public schoolThe term public school has two contrary meanings: In common British usage, a prestigious historic school open to the public that charges fees and is financed by bodies other than the state, commonly as a private charitable trust; here the word "public" iss, but in other English-speaking countries that term has quite a different meaning. In some poor countries, this compulsion is sometimes not enforced well because in those countries, children are important laborers who cannot be left to school to secure enough income. This phenomenon also occurs in some poor districts in wealthy countries, though to a lesser degree.
2 National Public School Systems
2.1 United States Public School
In the United States, public education has traditionally been under the control of individual states. This is different from many other countries where the public education system has been highly centralized at the national level (( FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents., JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh, South KoreaThe Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk ( Hangul: ; Hanja: )), commonly known as South Korea is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean peninsula. To the north, the Republic of Korea borders North Korea, with which it fo and TaiwanThe Republic of China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-hua Min-kuo, Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHua MinGuo, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhonghua Minguo) is a de facto sovereign state that currently administers the island groups of Taiwan, Peng). Local school districtAlthough the operation of public primary, middle, and secondary schools is by some considered to be more properly an executive function of government, public education in many communities in the USA has been made the function of a school district servings, with elected school boards administer the public primary and secondary schools within a metropolitan area, city, town or rural area. Within the United States in particular, the expanding role of the federal government in public education is often a subject of heated debate.
