K-12 is paid by local tax payers, who then fund their school district. You don't get to send your kids elsewhere though. Colleges would have to have a different model. Additionally, I'm not sure you can sell taxpayers on paying for ridiculous subjects and majors. I could see myself being willing to pay for free engineering school (with certain performance stipulations, etc) or maybe a med school. But I'm not about to pay for liberal arts.
Public education in the U.S. is paid by a combination of federal, state, and local dollars. K-12 is not simply paid by local taxpayers who fund their own school district.
~90% is from the state and county. Close enough. And students can't go to other schools (school choice isn't widely adopted). At what government level do colleges get their funding?
%% NO; but i'm not sure we will pay for that. IN MANY cases a forgiven debt is IRS counted as income/LOL And that's one of the reason why college is so expensive/ gov loans...........
How about the student who wants to be a plumber and doesn't go to collage. He needs to buy a truck and tools......He needs 30k to start his career........He should get interest free loan?