Average Tuition Cost Public Schools?

Question

My friend is trying to figure out about how much it costs yearly for public school tuition yearly. We have looked everywhere and can not find it anywhere. Any help would be awesome!

Answer 1

Nothing is free, you munchies who are harassing the questioner! You may attend free, but our taxdollars are paying upwards of $10,000 a year for every kid in public school. Which is irritating since none of my kids are IN public schools. I like what John Stossel said, the money should follow the kids...anyway

I know that in other countries primary education costs much more than most people can afford...and thus creates a vicious cycle of illiteracy and governmental abuse.

Good luck

For Midjay, the right of federally funded education is NO WHERE in the constitution, from www.nheld.com
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In other words, the federal government is a government of limited powers. All those powers not specifically enumerated in the U.S. Constitution as granted to the federal government are left to the States and to the people. Education of children is not a power specifically enumerated in the U.S. Constitution as granted to the federal government. Therefore, education of children is left to the States and to the people.
Yet, the federal government has adopted many laws regulating public “education.” How has it done so? It has done so by virtue of Supreme Court interpretation of the Constitution’s “Commerce Clause” and through the “power of the purse.”

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution is known as the “Commerce Clause.” Under this section, the federal government, specifically Congress, has the power to “regulate commerce.”
Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution enables Congress to “draw money from the Treasury” in “consequence of appropriations made by law.”

In other words, Congress can collect and dispense money and regulate commerce among the states.
It is through this power that Congress is able to affect education indirectly. Congress adopts a federal law that grants money to the states, if the states adopt a law that contains provisions that the federal government, in its law, indicates should be included in the state law. The states accept federal money, and in exchange, the state must do as the federal government wants them to do. Public and private schools also accept federal money. In exchange, the public and private schools do as the federal government wants them to do.

Answer 2

It depends solely on the school district. and I will have to find the link but a few years back there was a story on how the "richer"schools actually did worse academically than the "poorer" school districts.. her best bet is to contact the school board where the child would go.

People dont realize that the school board sets the taxes that residents pay for public education, they also decide how its spent...

And Melissa has it right.. No where in our constituion does it say anything about public education.. But thats a whole nother bag of worms :)

Answer 3

Zero. Public education is free in the US. It is part of the Constitution.

CORRECTION:
The melissa poster is correct, it isn't in the US constitution but it is in my State Constitution (it may be in all state constituions, I just looked up my state). However it is a law in each of the states "...all states had passed laws requiring children to attend at least elementary school..." (Encarta)

The posters original question is "tuition." Tuition is not used for public education, it is free. And yes, it is free to some people because some people have no jobs and don't own homes and pay zero taxes so they send their children for free. All of us that pay taxes pay for the "free education." But none of us that send our kids to public school pay the school tuition.

So, if the poster really meant to ask where to find out what it costs per pupil and what your local public school gets in public tax dollars for the students, then the poster needs to start searching your state education website, and NEA. (as someone else pointed out).

Answer 4

If you're talking Canada and the US, tuition is free in public schools.

If you mean the UK, I'm guessing it'd depend on the school. Here's Eton's list: http://www.etoncollege.com/eton.asp?di=104

Answer 5

Free

Answer 6

Florida where I live pays $5,735 per student yearly, but we rank 41st out of the 50 states. Our info is in the local paper every year, but you can probably just google your state's info with no problem.

Answer 7

Here are 2 links I found. The NEA has a nice little chart from 2001-2002. It only takes one look at it to know you can hang them with their own rope. I homeschooled our adopted teen for 3yrs & spent less than the state blows on a pupil in p.s. in a single year!

Answer 8

The average cost of education in Rhode Island is over 10k a year. However, the amount is much lower when you remove the number of students who have special needs.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 9

well i suggest you call the schools and find out there...if you are talking about public schools and not college then: if u live in the school district of the school you would like to attend then its free...but if you live in a different school district from the school you would like to attend then you have to pay tuition....i hope that makes sense.....

Answer 10

The amount that public schools recieve to educate each child is somewhere between $4000.00 and $10,000.00 per child depending on the wealth of the school district.