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Mary Rydquist
Lexie Tolentino
Haley Hagerty
Renee Phillips
Bray Olson
ED 200

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How do Local, State, and Federal Government affect Public Education?

Local Government - Mayor, City Council, and School Board

State Government - Governor, Principals, and Teachers

Federal Government - Head of the Department of Education, Supreme Court, and President

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Local Government and Their Role in Education 

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Local Government and Their Role in Education 

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-State governments delegate responsibilities to local government bodies who decide how schools will operate.
-School districts are the local form of government formed by the state government.

-School districts and the school board have elected and appointed individuals. The school board then appoints a superintendent who is an experienced individual with administration experience.
-Local school boards are also responsible for creating the curriculum, hiring personnel/staff, and deciding when schools should be closed or constructed.
-Although state and federal governments fund the majority of the budget for schools, the school district is responsible for funding and deciding where the rest of the money goes.
- The local government has property taxes on businesses and homes in order to fund their schools. Either the school board or local city council is in charge of the taxes. The amount of funding from the local government is based off the rate in which the local community is taxed (based off income/affluence of the community).

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State Government and Their Role in Education

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State Government and Their Role in Education

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-State governments exercise primary accountability and oversight for government-run schools.

-The state has the power to establish their own departments of education and their own laws governing school practices.

-State governments often choose to delegate much of their authority to local school districts, but they can reclaim that authority.

-Each state is responsible for their schools standards, and they all vary across the United States. They make sure that each school is preforming well and wether or not they need to be modified.

-They pay for a little less than half of the schools operating cost. They draw funds from income and sales tax.

-A recent development in state educational oversight is the emergence of the Common Core State Standards.

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-The public schools are controlled mostly by the state, but the federal government does have a small influence
-The Department of Education was added to the Executive Branch of the United States Government in 1867
-Roughly 3% of the federal budget is spent on education

-Money that comes from the federal government not from the Department of Education, but from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture’s School Lunch Program
-Every Student Succeeds Act and National Assessment of Education Progress are programs recommended by the federal government, but they are not funded to support these programs