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20 U.S.C. § 902 — Regulations of Secretary of Defense
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**(a) Employment, compensation, etc., of teachers** Not later than the ninetieth day following July 17, 1959, the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe and issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Such regulations shall govern—
(1) the establishment of teaching positions;
(2) the fixing of basic compensation for teachers and teaching positions at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 100,000 or more population;
(3) the entitlement of teachers to compensation;
(4) the payment of compensation to teachers;
(5) the appointment of teachers;
(6) the conditions of employment of teachers;
(7) the length of the school year or school years applicable to teaching positions;
(8) the leave system for teachers;
(9) quarters, allowances, and additional compensation for teachers; and
(10) such other matters as may be relevant and appropriate to the purposes of this chapter.
**(b) Effective date of regulations** The regulations prescribed and issued by the Secretary of Defense under subsection (a) of this section shall become effective on such date as the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe but not later than the ninetieth day following the date of issuance of such regulations.
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**(a) Employment, compensation, etc., of teachers** Not later than the ninetieth day following July 17, 1959, the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe and issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Such regulations shall govern—
(1) the establishment of teaching positions;
(2) the fixing of basic compensation for teachers and teaching positions at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 100,000 or more population;
(3) the entitlement of teachers to compensation;
(4) the payment of compensation to teachers;
(5) the appointment of teachers;
(6) the conditions of employment of teachers;
(7) the length of the school year or school years applicable to teaching positions;
(8) the leave system for teachers;
(9) quarters, allowances, and additional compensation for teachers; and
(10) such other matters as may be relevant and appropriate to the purposes of this chapter.
**(b) Effective date of regulations** The regulations prescribed and issued by the Secretary of Defense under subsection (a) of this section shall become effective on such date as the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe but not later than the ninetieth day following the date of issuance of such regulations.
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**(a) Employment and salary practices** The Secretary of Defense shall conduct the employment and salary practices applicable to teachers and teaching positions in the Department of Defense in accordance with this chapter, other applicable law, and the regulations prescribed and issued by the Secretary of Defense under [section 902 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section902&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Determination of exempt positions and individuals; establishment of annual salary rate** Subject to [section 5103 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5103&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of Defense—
(1) shall determine the applicability of paragraph (22) of [section 5102(c) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5102/c&num=0&edition=prelim) to positions and individuals in the Department of Defense; and
(2) shall establish the appropriate annual salary rate in accordance with this chapter for each such position and individual to which such paragraph (22) is determined to be applicable.
**(c) Rates of basic compensation** The Secretary of Defense shall fix the basic compensation for teachers and teaching positions in the Department of Defense at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 100,000 or more population.
**(d) Issuance of regulations by Secretary of Defense** The Secretary of Defense may prescribe and issue such regulations as he deems appropriate to carry out his functions under this chapter.
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**(a) Entitlement; amount** Subject to the regulations prescribed and issued by the Secretary of Defense under [section 902 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section902&num=0&edition=prelim), each teacher (other than an individual employed as a substitute teacher) shall be entitled to cumulative leave, with pay, which shall accrue at the rate of one day for each calendar month, or part thereof, of a school year, except that if the school year includes more than eight months, any such teacher who shall have served for the entire school year shall be entitled to ten (or, if such teacher is employed in a supervisory position or higher, not less than ten and not more than thirteen) days of cumulative leave with pay.
**(b) Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and nonwork days** Saturdays, Sundays, regularly scheduled holidays, and other administratively authorized nonwork days shall not be considered to be days of leave for the purposes of subsection (a) of this section.
**(c) Purposes for taking leave** Subject to the regulations prescribed and issued by the Secretary of Defense, leave earned by any teacher under subsection (a) of this section may be used by such teacher—
(1) for maternity purposes,
(2) in the event of the illness of such teacher,
(3) in the event of illness, contagious disease, or death in the immediate family of such teacher, and
(4) in the event of any personal emergency.
If appropriate advance notice is given of the intended absence of a teacher, not to exceed three days of such leave may be granted for any purpose in each school year to such teacher.
**(d) Credit for persons holding teaching positions and for employees transferred, promoted or reappointed** Any individual—
(1) who is holding a positio
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 902
amended Pub. L. 93–380, title I, § 111(a)(1), Aug. 21, 1974,
88 Stat. 513, authorized appropriations for fiscal years
through fiscal year 1978.
CHAPTER 25—PAY AND PERSONNEL
PROGRAM FOR OVERSEAS TEACHERS
Sec.
901.
Definitions.
902.
Regulations of Secretary of Defense.
903.
Administration.
904.
Leave.
905.
Quarters, quarters allowances, and storage.
906.
Entitlements in addition to basic compensa-
tion.
907.
Applicability of other laws.
§ 901. Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, the term—
(1) ‘‘teaching position’’ means those duties
and responsibilities which—
(A) are performed on a school-year basis
principally in a school operated by the De-
partment of Defense in an overseas area for
dependents of members of the Armed Forces
and dependents of civilian employees of the
Department of Defense, or are performed by
an individual who carried out certain teach-
ing activities identified in regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary of Defense; and
(B) involve—
(i) classroom or other instruction or the
supervision or direction of classroom or
other instruction; or
(ii) any activity (other than teaching)
which requires academic credits in edu-
cational theory and practice equal to the
academic credits in educational theory
and practice required for a bachelor’s de-
gree in education from an accredited insti-
tution of higher education; or
(iii) any activity in or related to the
field of education notwithstanding that
academic credits in educational theory
and practice are not a formal requirement
for the conduct of such activity.
(2) ‘‘teacher’’ means an individual—
(A) who is a citizen of the United States
or, in the case of a teaching position that in-
volves instruction in the host-nation lan-
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