When I went to high school in Calif.driving instruction was given automatically by the school,usually one of the coaches was the instructor,we had like 4 students in the car and we took turns driving.When my son started to learn to rive here in Arizona,none of the schools here in Tucson offer drivers Ed,You have to teach them yourselves or hire a company at the cost of a couple hundred dollars to train your student,or they can wait till they are 18 and just apply for their license.Of course if they have had the training ,they can get a discount on insurance with good grades included also