The initiative would provide tuition assistance of $15,500 per student per year, giving eligible families alternative options “when local options are insufficient.”
Pentagon schools will ban student personal device use during school days starting in August, aiming to reduce distractions and improve classroom focus.
The Pentagon wants leaders in the armed services to do more to combat persistently high military spouse unemployment, which sits at 20% — five times the national average.
Holocaust survivors Ella Mandel and Eva Brettler recently met virtually with American students from Misawa Air Base, sharing their experiences with the middle schoolers and describing in stark terms what life was like inside Nazi concentration camps.
The cost of school meals at overseas Defense Department schools will rise for the first time in four years, with all paid breakfasts and lunches increasing by 25 cents starting next school year.
Paul Craft, a retired National Guard colonel and former Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction, will succeed Beth Schiavino-Narvaez as the Department of Defense Education Activity civilian boss starting March 9.
A music teacher at a Defense Department school in South Korea returned to the classroom two months after he, his brother and a friend were seriously injured while crossing a Dallas street en route to an NBA game.
The shooting on Tuesday afternoon forced a lockdown of on-base schools and day care centers. No students, children or school staff members were harmed.
An American high school at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Japan has formalized years of informal exchanges with a Japanese public school, signing a sister-school pact aimed at deepening academic, cultural and athletic ties.
