HOW IS THE SECONDARY SCHOOL SYSTEM SUPPORTED FINANCIALLY By the local community in the uk? is there a special law?
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UK residents pay 'council tax' . This helps to fund schools (all of them, not just secondary schools), roads, police, fire service, health services etc. Council tax is worked out on the value of the house in which you live, whether you own it or not (it is a complicated matter) and varies from area to area. If you do not pay council tax then you are committing a civil offence and can, eventually, be taken to court. Government funding for schools comes through the local education authority (usually part of the Counry Council) and is 'topped-up' by contributions from local council tax, worked out by a formula. This means that school funding varies across the country. http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/schoolfunding/ Additional fund-raising is also carried out for individual schools by parent associations and so on.
