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1. US Education system
• http://www.ed.gov/

2. Structure of US education
• The U.S. educational system today comprises almost 96,000 public
elementary and secondary schools, plus more than 4,200 institutions of
higher learning, ranging from small, two-year community colleges to
massive state universities with undergraduate and graduate programs in
excess of 30,000 students.
• Education in the United States is mainly provided by the public sector,
with control and funding coming from three levels: federal, state, and
local.

3. Typical age (at end of the school
Level/Grade year)
Preschool
Various optional programs, such as Head Start Under 6
Pre-Kindergarten 4–5
Elementary school
Kindergarten 5–6
1st Grade 6–7
2nd Grade 7–8
3rd Grade 8–9
4th Grade 9–10
5th Grade 10–11
Middle school
6th Grade 11–12
7th Grade 12–13
8th Grade 13–14
High school
9th Grade 14–15
10th Grade 15–16
11th Grade 16–17
12th Grade 17–18
Post-secondary education
Ages vary, but often 18–23 (five years
to complete four years of schooling,
referred to as Freshman, Sophomore,
Tertiary education (College orUniversity) Junior and Senior years)
Vocational education Ages vary

5. US Education Budget
• ED currently administers a budget of $69.9 billion in discretionary
(Available for use as needed or desired)appropriations under the FY 2011
Continuing Resolution annualized level and operates programs that touch
on every area and level of education. The Department's elementary and
secondary programs annually serve nearly 14,000 school districts and
approximately 56 million students attending some 99,000 public schools
and 34,000 private schools. Department programs also provide grant,
loan, and work-study assistance to more than 15 million postsecondary
students.

6. Public school
• Public education constitutes the single largest expenditure for almost
every U.S. city and county, which receive the bulk of their funding from
local taxes. Local boards of education, most of which are elected,
administer the nation’s nearly 15,500 school districts, ranging from small
rural schools in states like Kansas and Nebraska to the New York City
system, which educates more than a million children annually.
• About 90 percent of the annual expenditures for education at all levels
comes from state, local, and private sources.
• This includes basic education, kindergarten to twelfth grade (K-12), also
referred to as primary and secondary education, as well as post-secondary
education / advanced education such as universities, colleges, and
technical schools funded and overseen by government rather than private
entities.

7. Private school
• Private schools -many of these schools are run by churches and other
religious organizations. Of the estimated 55.8 million children attending
elementary and secondary schools during the 2007-2008 academic year,
about 6 million, or 11 percent, were enrolled in private schools
• funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than
relying on public (government) funding

8. District schools
• In the United States, public schools are run by school districts, which are
independent special-purpose governments, or dependent school systems,
which are under the control of state or local government
• A school district is a legally separate body corporate and politic. School
districts are local governments with powers similar to that of a town or a
county, except in Virginia, whose school divisions have no taxing authority and
must depend on another local government (county, city, or town) for funding.
• Its governing body, which is typically elected by direct popular vote but may
be appointed by other governmental officials, is called a school board, board
of trustees, board of education, school committee, or the like. This body
appoints a superintendent, usually an experienced public school administrator,
to function as the district's chief executive for carrying out day-to-day
decisions and policy implementations.

9. County School
• In the United States, a county is a geographic subdivision of a state
,usually assigned some governmental authority.
• The average number of counties per state is 62. The state with the most
counties is Texas, 254; the state with fewest is Delaware, only three.
• As for the day-to-day operations of the county government, they are
sometimes overseen by a county manager or chief administrative officer
who reports to the board, the mayor, or both.

10. State Total
Alabama 2899
Alaska 809
Arizona 3858
Arkansas 2282
California 18084
Colorado 3328
Connecticut 2328
Delaware 388
District Of Columbia 392
Florida 6456
Georgia 4476
Hawaii 545
Idaho 1341
Illinois 8601
Indiana 3866
Iowa 2957
Kansas 2844
Kentucky 2819
Louisiana 2920
Maine 1383
Maryland 2767
Massachusetts 3730
Michigan 7630
Minnesota 4673
Mississippi 1973

11. Missouri 4632
Montana 1727
Nebraska 2512
Nevada 1093
New Hampshire 947
New Jersey 4842
New Mexico 1599
New York 9109
North Dakota 1080
Ohio 7970
Oklahoma 3592
Oregon 2491
Pennsylvania 6411
Puerto Rico 2767
Rhode Island 675
South Carolina 2309
South Dakota 1486
Vermont 738
Vermont 738
Texas 15354
Utah 1729
Virginia 3945
Washington 4293
West Virginia 1584
Wisconsin 4426
Wyoming 755

12. Important links
• http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/September/20080911223538eaifas0.320
• http://www.ed.gov/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(government_funded)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_school
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_district
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States#Funding_for_K.E2.80.9312
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States#Funding_for_college
• http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget11/11action.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_schools_in_Los_Angeles_County,_Califo
rnia
• http://www.answers.com/topic/county-united-states
• http://alaska.educationbug.org/public-schools/

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