The main body of rural compulsory education investment is the local school district.
Rural areas in the United States refer to towns and villages. In the United States, education is managed independently according to school districts, which are special areas where states manage, supervise and inspect school education. The state government authorizes the school district committee to manage the school education in the school district. The setting of school districts is roughly equivalent to rural towns, but the boundaries between them are not necessarily exactly the same. However, regardless of urban or rural areas, the areas divided for education are collectively called school districts, and the management system of urban-rural integration is implemented.
In the United States, education is a reserved right of States. The management of primary and secondary education belongs to the States, not the Federation. In the actual education system in the United States, the state has handed over the management of primary and secondary schools to local school districts. Therefore, in the United States, the main management responsibility and investment subject of rural compulsory education lies in the grass-roots local government, that is, the school district. School districts have independent taxation rights, and property tax once became the main source of funds for compulsory education in school districts. Education expenditure accounts for a large proportion of residents' consumption expenditure.
The state government has become the largest financial source of rural compulsory education.
After World War II, under the interaction of historical tradition and realistic development, the financial system of rural compulsory education in the United States, which is mainly based on school district investment and is too scattered, has undergone great changes. The trend is that the federal and state governments have increased their financial allocation to local school districts. After 1979, this trend further developed, and the state government's financial support for basic education in school districts began to exceed the property tax levied by school districts, becoming the largest financial source of rural compulsory education.
Compulsory education varies greatly from region to region.
Looking at the process and present situation of the financial system reform of compulsory education in the United States, there are several problems: First, there are many contradictions and precautions between the federal and state in control and anti-control, which affect the solution of many problems in education investment, including investment scale and special support policies. Second, due to the differences in the level of economic and cultural development between States and between urban and rural areas, the level of investment in compulsory education is unbalanced. Thirdly, due to the diversified investment channels of compulsory education, the level and degree of investment are not standardized and fluctuate greatly, which brings some unstable factors to the budget and final accounts of local and even schools. Fourth, because a large part of the funds for compulsory education in the United States are borne by school districts, and the source of education funds in school districts mainly depends on the property tax of local residents, the difference in funds and the burden on the people caused by the inequality between the rich and the poor in the region have become practical difficulties and problems.
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