The curriculum for public schools is determined on a state level. The Federal Department of Education performs standardized testing to provide a national benchmark and comparison of state education effectiveness, but does not hold the state accountable to a curriculum.
States would lose federal funding if their schools did not meet federal standards.
That only determines minimum national requirements, not the full curriculum. They test once in grade school, once in middle school, and once in high school.
It’s true that a school can lose federal funding if the majority of the students fail to meet national standards, but that only accounts for 8-11% of public school funding.
Completely understand, but with how tight budgets are for schools currently losing 8 to 11% of funding is devastating.
It’s is, but it only perpetuates the problem. With no national accountability other than loss of funds, the sub-par school continues to operate with less funding. The federal government can’t assert any control over the district’s curriculum or staffing to improve standards.
I wasn’t attempting to imply it was a good system, only that there are ramifications
That’s fair. In that respect, there are repercussions.
The curriculum for public schools is determined on a state level.
In short: yes. US schools teach whatever they want, and even better, it’s going to get worse now that 2/3 of the states are controlled by conservatives who’ve spent decades gutting public schools.
They can’t teach whatever they want, but there is some degree of freedom. There are curriculum requirements mandated by the state that teachers must meet. Teachers may add to the curriculum if the content is not contested by the local Board of Education or the Parent Teacher Association.
There’s a lot of stupid states that have very very fundamentally unintelligent morons in charge that thing feelings= facts, plus another group of monsters that realizes you cannot get an educated person to work in a mine so keep them ignorant and dependant on shitty labor jobs with marginal rights.
And if these monsters get their selfish way they’ll roll out no education for all.
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