Original sentence: All states provide public school education from kindergarten through the twelfth year of high school free of charge; further, the federal government does not establish a standard nationwide curriculum.Also, as of 2003, there is increasing state and federal pressure to quantify teaching efficacy using results from standardized tests, which tends to lead to a more uniform curriculum.Conversely, because of the constitutional prohibition regarding governmental establishment of religion, most private religious schools are in fact barred from such direct governmental support.Funding of the public school systems is most often provided primarily at the local level,with money obtained from county or city property taxes used to fund the public schools (in conjunction with additional funds from the state and federal governments).Increasingly, however, more comprehensive statewide curricula are being developed.Other criticisms of recent educational trends include an increasing lack of post-secondary scholarships and subsidies.Private school education in the United States at the primary and secondary levels generally receives little or no governmental support in the form of direct funding or subsidies, although non-profit bodies running private schools may receive favorable tax status.Public education in the United States is provided by the separate states, not the federal government (except in the limited circumstances of on-base public schools provided for military dependents).Rather, the curriculum is typically established by state educational departments or local school districts, and teachers in many districts may have wide discretion to determine what is taught in the classroom.This trend toward educational standardization, which has been attributed with a concommittant decline in flexibility in teaching, and other reforms—such as the use of whole-language methodology for teaching reading in primary school, instead of the more traditional phonics-based approach—promoted in recent years have been controversial
Edited sentence: Also, as of 2003, there is increasing state and federal pressure to use standardized tests, which lead to a more uniform curriculum.Funding of schools is often done on the local level,with money obtained from property taxes used to fund the public schools.Increasingly, statewide curricula are being developed.It is free, but, unlike many other countries, the US has no standard nationwide curriculum.Other criticisms include an increasing lack of post-secondary scholarships and subsidies.Public education in the United States is provided by.Rather, it is up to the teachers and administrators of the school districts to determine what is and is not taught.This, and other reforms brought in under the current administration, have been criticized.the separate states, not the federal government