20 U.S.C. § 923a — Enrollment of certain additional children on tuition-free basis
submitted 20 years ago by Pub. L. 95-561 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 303 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of Defense may authorize tuition-free enrollment for specified additional children in defense dependents’ education schools. The section permits system funds and sets enrollment methods and a space-available rule.
(a) Under regulations, the Secretary may allow tuition-free enrollment for (1) children of full-time locally hired overseas Department of Defense employees who are United States citizens or nationals; and (2) children of foreign military members assigned to (A) Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe, only at Mons, Belgium, or (B) the United Nations Command, only in South Korea or Japan. (b) System funds may educate them. (c)(1) Regulations must use estimated enrollment of section 932(2) dependents to determine the number of foreign military members’ children, with advice from responsible combatant commanders. (2) If more seek enrollment, additional children may be enrolled tuition-free when space is available despite section 923(d)(2).
Under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary may authorize the enrollment in schools of the defense dependents’ education system on a tuition-free basis of—
the children of full-time, locally-hired employees of the Department of Defense in an overseas area* if such employees are citizens or nationals of the United States; and
the children of foreign military members assigned to—
the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe, but only in a school of the defense dependents’ education system in Mons, Belgium; or
the United Nations Command, but only in a school of the defense dependents’ education system in South Korea or Japan.
The Secretary may use funds available for the defense dependents’ education system to provide for the education of children enrolled in the defense dependents’ education system under subsection (a).
In the regulations required by subsection (a), the Secretary shall prescribe a methodology based on the estimated total number of dependents of sponsors under section 932(2) of this title enrolled in schools of the defense dependents’ education system described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) to determine the number of children described in that paragraph who will be authorized to enroll under such subsection. The Secretary shall prescribe such methodology with the advice and assistance of the commanders of the geographic combatant commands with jurisdiction over the locations described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a).
If the number of children described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) who seek enrollment in schools of the defense dependents’ education system exceeds the number authorized by the Secretary under paragraph (1), the Secretary may enroll the additional children on a space-available, tuition-free basis notwithstanding section 923(d)(2) of this title.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 95–561, title XIV, § 1404A, as added Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title V, § 571, Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3270; amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title V, § 571(a), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2225; Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title X, § 1063(e)(1), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 323; Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title V, § 535, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2292; Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title V, § 597, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1921.)
- 2006Enacted · Pub. L. 95-561 · 119 Stat. 3270
- 2006Amended · Pub. L. 109-364 · 120 Stat. 2225
- 2008Amended · Pub. L. 110-181 · 122 Stat. 323
- 2009Amended · Pub. L. 111-84 · 123 Stat. 2292
- 2024Amended · Pub. L. 118-159 · 138 Stat. 1921
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