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DOD Dependents Schools: Enrollment Categories, Numbers, and Locations

HEHS-95-149 Published: Sep 18, 1995. Publicly Released: Sep 18, 1995.
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on educating Department of Defense (DOD) dependents overseas, focusing on: (1) legislation that establishes eligibility and authorizes funding for students to enroll in DOD Dependents Schools (DODDS) as space becomes available; (2) the number of space-available students enrolled and their locations; and (3) the circumstances surrounding high space-available enrollments in some schools.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should propose to Congress alternatives, and their costs, to bring DODDS into compliance with budgetary guidelines that prohibit DOD from requesting funds for space-available, tuition-free students and that consider the compliance, disciplinary, and social problems that currently exist.
Closed – Not Implemented
DOD does not concur with the GAO recommendation. It does not agree that DODDS has failed to adhere to House Armed Services Committee instructions to exclude the cost of educating space available, tuition free students (i.e., noncommand sponsored dependents) from its budget requests.

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Armed forces abroadEligibility criteriaMilitary dependentsNoncomplianceOverseas dependents schoolsPublic schoolsReporting requirementsStatistical dataStudentsSkilled labor