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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8712092" data-attributes="member: 6779310">The US public education system has major flaws, but it is free for almost all until secondary graduation or age 21. (I only worked in education 15 years...)Elementary to secondary education is free in public schools (usually town or county level government funded, but some areas it's a separate overlapping tax authority) to age twelve or completion of grade 6 (whichever is first), and to all able to benefit through high-school graduation or age 21 (whichever is first). Pre-K is free in some places, pay in others, private only in the majority of urban areas, and absent in most rural areas. Federal law provides much of the funding, but not all. Majority in some districts, small chunk in others.If you're paying for textbooks and tuition, you're in a private school or a charter school. Charter school varies too much to be worth explicating here. Private schools are not federally regulated, varying by state.Once one gets to post-secondary (college or technical schools), it's not free. Nor is it in any way guaranteed. But many do indeed get federal grants for post-secondary.Public funded health care exists under federal law for low-income persons, tho' administered by the separate states. Hawaii has public funded health care for all permanent residents last I checked (just now: <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8353211/" target="_blank">Hawaii's near-universal health insurance--lessons learned - PubMed</a> ), and is the sole state doing so at the moment, tho' several states fund higher income levels than federal funds provide grants for.Anchorage starts at $52k for a Bachelors with cert, almost $58k for masters with cert at start. ASD hiring policies when I last worked there required a masters for new hires, or a pre-NCLB Alaska teaching license and a bachelor's. So, in practice, $58k.</blockquote>

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