Parents face a growing barrage of fees as students return to school

The cost of free public education is on the rise, as a growing number of districts in the United States require students to be registered, to use textbooks, to use libraries, and so on.

Some students from the Benton-Carroll-Salem Local School District in Ohio this school year pay a school activity fee of 10 USD, 34 USD for chemicals and supplies for chemistry and 3 USD for an alert system with the possibility of mass appeal. Anatomy and Physiology students pay $ 35 to cover the cost of cadavers and other course materials. High school students this …