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DOD Dependents Schools: Enrollment Categories, Numbers, and Locations

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 18, 1995
Report No. HEHS-95-149
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Summary:

For school year 1994-95, the Defense Department's (DOD) dependents schools system enrolled more than 88,000 students in 191 schools worldwide and had a budget of $860 million. Most students were DOD command-sponsored, military or civilian dependents for whom DOD must provide a free public education overseas. About 5,500 students were enrolled as space-available students--that is, dependents who were not command sponsored and thus not eligible for space-required enrollment, but were allowed to enroll if space was available. About 3,000 of these space-available children paid tuition, while the other 2,500 attended tuition free. This report (1) reviews legislation that establishes eligibility and authorizes funding for student to enroll in DOD's dependents schools system as space-available, (2) identifies the number of students enrolled as space-available and their locations, and (3) explains the circumstances surrounding high space-available enrollments in some schools.

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