United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-09-18 monographic deposited born digital 52 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-95-149 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149 P0b002ee1803854f1 f:he95149 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149 HEHS-95-149 Overseas dependents schools Armed forces abroad Military dependents Public schools Students Eligibility criteria Noncompliance Reporting requirements Statistical data Korea Ankara (Turkey) Bonn (Germany) Bahrain Japan Okinawa DOD Dependents Schools Student Information Management System Panama Letter Report HEHS

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.<p/>GAO found that: (1) the Secretary of Defense is authorized to establish enrollment eligibility for space-available students and has categorized space-available students as either tuition-paying or tuition-free; (2) tuition-paying students can be either dependents of U.S. government agency sponsors or retired military and foreign national sponsors; (3) tuition-free, space-available students are the dependents of DOD sponsors who are not authorized government transportation and housing overseas for their dependents; (4) DOD is required to only include the cost of educating space-required and tuition-paying students in its budget request, but DODDS has not followed these instructions; (5) although tuition-free, space-available students only represent about 3 percent of the current DODDS student population, the percentage is much higher in Korea; (6) in school year 1994-1995, space-available enrollments represented about 6 percent of total DODDS enrollment, almost half of which were tuition-free; and (7) although 75 percent of DODDS schools had space-available enrollments of 5 percent or less, four schools had enrollments of over 65 percent. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149.pdf GAO/HEHS-95-149 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-149 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-95-149; DOD Dependents Schools: Enrollment Categories, Numbers, and Locations; Overseas dependents schools Armed forces abroad Military dependents Public schools Students Eligibility criteria Noncompliance Reporting requirements Statistical data Korea Ankara (Turkey) Bonn (Germany) Bahrain Japan Okinawa DOD Dependents Schools Student Information Management System Panama Title 20 Section 921 20 U.S.C. 921 Public Law 95-561 H. Rept. 99-235 Conf. Rept. 99-235 H. Rept. 103-357